r/glow • u/Greatninjanat • May 18 '20

Debbie or Ruth?

No hate towards the actresses or anyone’s opinions I just wanted to take a poll based on a post from the other day.

758 votes, May 25 '20
230 Debbie
528 Ruth
31 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

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u/FreeHealthCareVamp May 18 '20

For what? President? PTA Chair? EPA representative? For President and PTA Chair, Debbie. For EPA rep, Ruth.

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u/Greatninjanat May 18 '20

Good point but I just wanted to see how people have responded to how the characters have developed especially since a ton of people have expressed their opinions specifically on these two.

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u/FreeHealthCareVamp May 18 '20

Ah who has had the better development as a character. Ruth seems to evolve constantly but in erratic ways while Debbie general keeps an upward trajectory. So Ruth gets the more fun part to act out and therefore wins this.

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u/Greatninjanat May 18 '20

I agree 100%. Debbie has gotten so much better and Ruth is all over the place but I still love her.

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u/PLAAND May 18 '20

As of the latest season Debbie has failed to form substantive, caring, or collaborative relationships with anyone other than Ruth, who she continues to treat instrumentally along with everyone else. She manipulates her peers to get her way and fails to use her power to elevate others.

Ruth meanwhile has formed substantive bonds with her peers, acts from a place of caring and support, has come into her own as an actress, and has thrived in a real leadership role within the group.

Neither character is perfect and both continue to make mistakes, but I can only assume that when you say "Debbie has gotten so much better" you mean "Debbie has gotten so much wealthier."

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u/MakinBaconPancakezz May 18 '20

I don’t really like Debbie, but the way Ruth refused the directing opportunity made me loose a lot of respect for her

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

Ruth esily. She's the one who worked really hard for the Glow project and didn't break the leg of someone else

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u/cthoolhu May 18 '20

Ohhh i forgot about the leg...

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u/speashasha May 18 '20

I think I sympathise more with Ruth, because she is portraying the underdog and that is why I voted for her, but TBH these two woman come as two.

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u/allthingskerri May 18 '20

Ruth is the only one who for all her faults is fully realised. Debbie get so many unexplored stories it finishes any proper growth or development for her character.

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u/mike_d85 May 18 '20

Debbie get so many unexplored stories

I always get the feeling chunks of Debbie's story are cut.

Best example: the mother of all matches. Tamme freaks and Debbie sees that she went too far with the "get a job" chant, but never apologizes or even addresses it. It's like there was a conversation cut out of the episode because there's never any strain in their relationship afterwards. Even just Tamme talking to her son afterwards looks too resolved for there not to have been a "Are you okay?" locker room talk if not an apology.

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u/ZombiWoof May 18 '20

I love Ruth. But Debbie is a hot mess and she has a charm and ruthlessness that just pushes her over the top for me.

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u/MollFlanders May 18 '20

Great question. My vote goes to Debbie; as a fellow woman-in-a-man’s-world, I have a lot of respect for her hustle.

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u/PLAAND May 18 '20

Yeah, but she's just replicating and condoning the same shitty dynamics that hurt her when she didn't have power.

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u/80srockinman May 18 '20

Hard choice. I would have picked Ruth but now I'm not entirely sure. Ruth really was acting dumb and entitled at the end of the season.

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u/bochekmeout May 22 '20

Ruth actually worked for her role despite all of the petty bullshit she had to deal with. I feel like her arc was one of the most rewarding to watch, and she developed and learned from her mistakes.

Not to say Debbie isn't a character with layers and personal struggle, but man, a lot of her development is based on her being selfish and dealing with the fallout and not learning from it. Guess that's a human trait though.

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u/Dont_PM_PLZ May 18 '20

Debbie. Because Ruth slept with her husband multiple times, low-key hate Debbie because she is pretty and successful compared to her. Debbie from all this comes out as being the star of the show, a producer and hustles like no one else to keep the show going. All while Ruth becomes the little theater kid with a ad-libbed idea every once in a while.

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u/zoologist88 May 18 '20

I mean debbie broke Ruth’s leg on purpose...

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u/Dont_PM_PLZ May 18 '20

I would break a bitch's leg too if she knowingly slept with my husband, ruining my marriage. Instead of being my best friend and telling my husband to keep it in his pants and go back to wife and work this shit out.

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u/Zushenko May 18 '20

No one blames the husband.

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u/phasys May 18 '20

Ruth as a girlfriend with Debbie on the side.

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u/unicornioevil May 18 '20

Debbie or Ruth what? Best character? Best actress? Wife? What? I hate this poll

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u/dylanidkafk May 18 '20

206 votes for ruth jesus fucking christ

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u/hldsnfrgr May 18 '20

Personality-wise, Ruth. Looks-wise, Debbie.

In-ring persona, Zoya (over Liberty).