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Although I'm sure there are plenty of misogynists who hate Skyler because she's cast in the typical "wet blanket" role, that doesn't mean that everyone who despises her character is misogynistic.
Her character is despicable because she lacks any type of redeeming virtue. She's ready to divorce Walt because he lies about where he's been and what he's done, but she has no problem committing systemic accounting fraud for a poorly run business. Skyler has no problem saying that she wants to protect her children, but is unwilling to actually protect them by informing the police about Walt's activities.
Some awful people are interesting, brilliant psychopaths, and others are just boring hypocrites. Anna Gunn's problem is that she can't see the forest for the trees. She assumes that the hatred of her character is rooted solely in misogyny rather than a combination of factors; she's also made the mistake, apparently, of living her gimmick.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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