Potentially unpopular opinion about Rory "cheating" with Dean
I think its quite telling how much fault people put on Rory in the whole "cheating on Lindsay" - situation.
But I dont think she has much fault at all. Dean basically lied to her, he made her think the relationship was over, agreed on both sides, him and Lindsay. He made it sound like it was just a matter of putting a signature on divorce papers and that him and Lindsay were aligned in this.
And Rory was a teenage girl with crazy feelings, circumstances that unsettled her and little life experience. Imagine yourself in her shoes with the kind of brain she had as a teenager. I can find little fault with her. Even her saying he was "her dean", I can easily say it as something she would say out of shock.
I agree with Lorelais telling off but in my opinion, its really Dean who is at fault here, he knowingly mislead her and lied to her. Id say Rorys responsibility in this is like 20 percent and I find it so telling (in terms of peoples views on women) how much fault people find with her and how much they judge her for this mistake.
I think wed do good to remember Deans behavior here and also...how dumb we all were at Rorys age