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why did they make Avery so boy crazy

posted 9 years ago by lonnieanixt
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Her character started out as this intelligent goal oriented little girl, whose only passion was relegated to the desire to learn all that school had to offer. If anything she was a bit shy and awkward, the contrast to tyler. Then suddenly she is completely boy-crazy, ready to humiliate herself in anyway to get the attention of boys she liked-and she always picked boys for their looks.
We had a whole run of episode where Avery is a relationship expert,trying to teach nikki, a girl who was after Tyler to 'not' be boy cray, and to wait for the 'right one" then all of a sudden Avery is super crushing on everybody. Disney has a real opportunity to instruct girls on deciding between what is fake and what is true, and in this case they decided to degrade a spirited character, who in the original was unlimited in her potential, and turned her into a clown chasing after empty headed jocks.

[–] rockyroseling 9 years ago

I don't like this show, but while she was stereotypical, she was still a good role model, for the most part. But she all of a sudden became obsessed with boys. I don't know when this begun, but if this started a few months after the Good Luck Charlie episode that featured a lesbian couple, then I think I know why. Disney Channel's ratings took a deep plunge after that and I'm sure they went out of their way to make sure every character was "straight enough" so it wouldn't get any worse. I know that happened, so that might be the case.