X-Files Book Club

I think I agree with your idea that we might not want to see Scully as "weak, vulnerable, needy, pathetic etc" because as women we want her to be "strong and capable," which may be how we want to see ourselves. That wouldn't have occurred to me immediately, but it sounds right. I wonder if there were more male fans, we'd see the opposite, with people being okay with Scully being emotional and vulnerable, but not so with Mulder.