Why do people hate BREAKING BAD's Skyler White?

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Anna Gunn, the actress who plays Skyler White, wrote an opinion piece addressing the animosity that she and her character inspire online. You can read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/i-have-a-character-issue.html?_r=0.

In a nutshell, Gunn makes a very generic feminist argument that a lot of men feel intimidated by strong women, that she's not the typical "TV wife," that America still has a long way to go when it comes to gender equality, yadda yadda.

Personally, I don't think that's why people dislike Skyler. In a culture where so many people revere gangsters and consider the government their enemy, I think a lot of people resent her old-fashioned and slavish devotion to "the law" and middle-class respectability.

I could point to several examples of this, if anyone cares. What do the rest of you (at least those of you who watch Breaking Bad think?
 

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Too funny, I literally JUST finished watching the most recent episode of that show!!

I disliked Skyler from the 1st episode when she's getting fucked by Walt and she says "Walt, is that YOU?!" as if he'd never actually given her any real pleasure sexually before that night. She just never really seems to have Walt's back until she's kinda forced into the corner with him.

I think the actress who played her did an amazing job at portraying the character, and Skyler plays an important part in the show (after all, if it wasn't for his wife and kids, Walt would never had started cooking in the 1st place).. but the character herself just always bothered me... Also for the reason you mentioned.

I wouldn't say she's so different from other 'housewives' on TV today..The modern sitcom wife is almost always portrayed some kinda control freak and the husband is always just making himself crazy trying to find a way to keep her happy. Not all shows are that way, but I've definitely seen in several shows other than Breaking Bad.
 

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I disliked Skyler from the 1st episode when she's getting fucked by Walt and she says "Walt, is that YOU?!" as if he'd never actually given her any real pleasure sexually before that night. She just never really seems to have Walt's back until she's kinda forced into the corner with him. </quote>

I find their sexual relationship very believable -- I just think that Walt had presented himself in a certain way, sexually, for all the years of their marriage, and that changed when this other side of him began to come out. He explains it when he and Skyler have sex in the car outside the school board meeting (I think that's in season one): She asks, "Why was that so good," and Walt says, "Because it was illegal."