Without spoling the plot, last night on Gilmore Girls: Rory goes to the library looking for a book for her gender studies class, specifically Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. Paris finds the book for Rory and hands it to her, cover-side down. While this slight degree of obfuscation might be enough to hoodwink the majority of TV viewers, I was not fooled by their Jedi mind tricks -- that book was not Gender Trouble! First of all, it was the wrong color; the actual book is one lighter than that shown on Gilmore Girls. Second, in no universe could a publisher fit Butler's rambling, impenetrable, profuse prose into the thin, flimsy paperback that Paris forks over.
Speaking of trouble with genders, check out what google returns when you search of "Gender Trouble":
Methinks the semantic web needs to attend sensitivity training :)
Update: I couldn't have been more wrong. A frame-by-frame playback via MythTV shows that Paris obtained the new, 2006 edition of Gender Trouble, the cover of which does not have the distinctive yellowish frame of the older version. And the book was cover-side-up when it was passed to Rory (who then turns the cover away from the audience). Whoops! Sorry, false alarm.
"Rambling, impenetrable, profuse prose"? You might want to clean yourself up a bit, pot.
I'm sorry to hear that Paris wasn't the one in search of Gender Trouble. Heaven knows she could gain something from reading it.
I'm going to use Jon Stewart's "puppets making crank phone calls" defense and say that (1) I'm not publishing a book of blog posts and (2) I can do nothing but heartily agree when people insult my writing.
Oh, and I think Paris is in that class too -- you'll have to watch this season to understand why she was getting the book for Rory.