When a reporter at a country club gets dirt on her family, Mickey creates a plan to get back at him in hopes of clearing the Pemberton name by making it look like the reporter poops in the pool. The plan fails and it ends up looking like Sabrina pooped in the pool (she pooped in that same pool as a child, and now everyone thought she did again).
Masculine Qualities:
- Assertive
- arguing with waiter at a country club: “look all I’m saying is that for a fancy establishment you do very piss-poor nachos”; followed by waiter talking about how he already told her they don’t serve nachos but she insisted they make them for her anyways
- Willing to take risks
- stole a shower head from the country club just to take advantage of the rich people
- Leadership ability
- Mickey convinces Alba to take advantage of the country club with her and follow along with her
- Mickey creates a plan to switch out a guys sunscreen with cooking oil so he burns, getting him to jump in the pool. She then plans to
- Forceful
- “let’s chuck hot sauce at his face… it will burn him really bad, that’s why” -followed by her throwing hot sauce in his face
Feminine Qualities:
- Loyal
- the whole point of Mickey making a plan to stop the reported was to try and save her niece and nephews’ social status because they were embarrassed knowing that everyone at the country club was talking about their parents fraud
S1E7 of the Mick portrays Mickey as more masculine than feminine, meaning her sex role portrayal is not stereotypical.
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