I HATE DEAN

You guys. I HATE Dean. I’m watching Season 2 Episode 16. It’s the one where Lorelai and Emily go to the spa retreat and Rory wants to spend the night alone doing laundry and whatnot. Dean is such a jerk. I’ve never seen a character so controlling, especially considering he’s 17. He acts like that stupid bracelet is the deed to how she should live. He screams at her and makes her feel guilty about wanting to be alone. He demands explanations of how she’s spending her time and why she’s not spending it with him. The only way he stops being angry with her is if she makes out with him. He goes over to her house even though she SPECIFICALLY asked him not to and he refuses to listen to her and thinks he’s being cute by still coming over. (Jess comes over unannounced as well which isn’t cool either.) I can not and will never understand how anyone can like Dean as a character. He is NOT a nice guy whatsoever. And it’s especially weird to me that he’s even demanding of Lorelai when he wants to know what Rory’s doing. Like, how does a grown woman validate being questioned by a 17 year old boy about her daughter? I feel like she should have liked him a lot less and warned Rory about how controlling and manipulative Dean was.