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The Scully Effect
by Elizabeth Rubio I was born in 1981, which means I was a young teenager when The X-Files premiered. My mother and I habitually sat down together on Sunday evenings to watch the latest epis…
Starling and Scully shared many qualities: both FBI agents, both young women, both excellent at their jobs, using logic and clear thinking to get on top of difficult situations. Throughout the year we mated fruit flies to see the inheritance of physical characteristics, we isolated our own DNA, and we demonstrated chromosomal crossover using pop beads. I will always be grateful to the creators of The X-Files, and Gillian Anderson especially, for showing me a world that contained smart, capable women like the one I aspired to be, and for letting me know that dream was not just possible, but valuable.
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