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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurie!" data-source="post: 360555" data-attributes="member: 2210">I think the writers struggled writing for female characters on DALLAS.  I also firmly believe the CBS and Lorimar execs refused to allow Victoria to have the scripts she and viewers craved....it was a boys club.  It's the only way to explain why Pam didn't go toe to toe with JR when Bobby "died". ..Victoria's contract was over next season and they couldn't let her become too important.Patrick has made "jokes", wink, wink about Victoria standing in his light and commented how others were so gracious to give him light, etc.  I honestly think he's speaking in man code and he really means Victoria stole his spotlight/attention when they shared scenes.  We all know an actor stands on a little piece of tape or wherever their director tells them to stand.  So if Victoria stood "in his light", it was because she was where she was supposed to be...not an act of selfishness.  So, when Patrick returned, it was at the expense of every current female cast member and future one....they were forever doomed to be needy, whiny dames who needed to be saved by Bobby or fired from the show.As for Pam having more normal chances to be happy...I disagree.  Sue Ellen got away and could have easily been happy.Pam grew up knowing her mother abandoned her, had a drunken father and had the misfortune to fall in love with a grown ass man who refused to move out of his Mommy and Daddy's home....worse, was expected to eat breakfast and dinner with a brother-in-law who hated her and was constantly trying to wreck her marriage.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?