#like obviously racism is rampant but breaking it down makes me 👹

[saintpoems]

now that sophie is at the center of the narrative im just thinking about how  logan never said a word to her, or hugged her or interacted with her in the same way he interacted with iverson. and i know he closed down the park for her birthday but that was more to warm kendall up to him than anything else. there’s nothing else thats significant between them, at least not like when kendall nearly drowned and we got that scene with logan and iverson by the pool; how logan was capable of comforting him and how sophie was’t really there. she was just off to the side and when she spoke, logan didn’t answer her and spoke directly to iverson.

that scene was such a direct way to show that she either 1) knows not to be around him or 2) wasn’t invited to sit with them or 3) someone kept her away because they know logan doesn’t want her around. succession isnt the kind of show that gives you unnecessary details, so the few scenes we’ve gotten with sophie and iverson tell us everything we need to know. sophie was not excempt from logan’s racism-- if anything, she was probably a target of microaggressions bc to him she was an outsider/adoptee/poc/non-blood family member and family/blood was so important to logan because it tethered people to him. 

it also mirrors the fighting dog theory-- logan saw two fighting dogs and sent the “weak one away” and established/reinforced a racial/gender hierarchy between kendall’s kids, just like he did among his own kids when they were younger, especially regarding gender (ie how that is Shiv’s greatest fault/the comment from s3 about her only being valuable bc she was a diversity hire for optics essentially). and what’s worse is that kendall knew his father was a racist and bigot and how sophie was still expected to go to family events and be around all that animosity and coldness anyway to preserve the nuclear family ideal (also instilled in him by the aforementioned hierarchies) for his fathers sake. so im not shocked that he backed mencken, but im horrified by the scale of it (which i have more thoughts on). 

also, logan’s mistreatment of sophie’s being more covert/different to the way logan physically hurt iverson is just. so much to unpack. im rambling, but shout out to rava. family dynamics aside, no wonder she kept them away from the roys as much as she could.