Another important behavior that the Bionic Woman often practices is a refrainment from the defense for herself as a women or her special abilities. Rarely does she even acknowledge the constant insults and critism from her fellow workers and not once does she take credit for her own accomplishments. For example, when she saves all of her friends at the end, she opens a locked door with the help of one other man. Although she actually completed the task all by herslf, she passes all of the credit on to her coworker, who was more than thrilled to accept the praise. This incident, to me, can be seen in two different ways. On one hand, it seems to say that if you are a woman and have some sort of special talent, keep it to yourself. It will only lead to trouble if it gets out. This is also evidenced by the fact that on more than one occasion, Jaime was scorned for allowing people to know about her powers. (Either that or she had to get them to promise to keep her secret) Jaime seems very passive and unwilling to stand up against the outright insults that often came her way. On the other hand, though, this could be demonstrating the idea that Jaime is so confident in herself that she can be modest, not brag, and still feel good about herself as a person. Perhaps her lack of response to insults is just a way of saying that it is not worth the trouble to defend yourself to a group of people who, in my opinion, look like uneducated morons anyway. She doesn't look upset or in any way less confident about herself when they are doing this so perhaps her lack of response is a positive quality. Also, her denial of her accomplishments could just be a large emphasis on modesty. Who says that Jaime needs to brag about her accomplishments in order to develp a strong sense of being. Therefore, perhaps both her modesty and lack of argument to insults is a positve quality pointing to the idea that she does not need the reinforcement of others praises to feel confident with herself.

A third idea that is presented in this episode of the Bionic Woman is that the maintaining of feminine qualities and behaviors is important if a woman desires to enter a man's world. This is evidenced a number of times, including in the opening credits. In looking at the beginning of the male version of this show (The Six Million Dollar Man), the music and actions are very fast, powerful and exciting. The Bionic Woman's introduction, however, pictures her smiling sweetly while a high pitched violin serendades her in the background. The contrast between these two is striking and seems to point to the idea that although these two people perform the exact same job, Jaime, as a woman, must hold fast to her feminity and pacifity. This movement to the "traditional" female role despite the entrance into a Mans' "world is also evidenced by Jaime's outfits during the episode. She is a salvage worker and therefore wears overalls and boots. Her look, however, is topped off with pigtails, which not only make her feminine but also a little childish in appearance. Finally, the many incidences of her kissing (on the cheek) and hugging her fellow coworkers seems a very feminine thing to do. You would never see the male coworkers kissing each other, so it just seems to reinforce this idea of femininity. Also, because the kissing is so non-sexual, it seems that it demonstrates the "father-daughter" relationship in the show.

The "father-daughter" relationship brings up another point that is actually central to the entire show. Men, in this episode, give women power and in turn, have the right to control everything they do, just like how a father gives his daughter life and in turn, controls many of her behaviors. Oscar and the OSI gave her her Bionics and gives her all of the assignments. Even when Jaime thinks that she is controlling her own actions, she is actually being controlled by Oscar. In this episode, for example, Jaime volunteers to help Oscar. What she doesn't know is that Oscar had already acquired the salvage worker position for her before he even told her about it. He was going to assign it to her whether or not she "volunteered" . This incident demonstrates that a great deal, while not all, of her behavior is controlled by men. The idea of Male Supremacy runs throughout the entire show, from Oscar to even the salvage workers who think that they are better than her.

The fifth prescription that was made in this show was that power comes from a child-like submissive quality, NOT a strong domineering one. When she was attempting to get information out of her coworker, she had pigtails, she twirled her hair, she lowered her eyes, she played with a kitten, and she spoke with an almost childish tone of voice. In order to get information, she needed to revert back to this childish figure, which seems to demonstrate that it is a women's passivity and childishness that will aid a women in her endevours.

A final message that this episode of The Bionic Woman presents, has both positive and negative facets. Jaime has chosen for herself to be single and work in a "traditionally" male dominated workplace. Although Jaime is originally given the job by a man, she always works by herself and always manages to complete the assigned mission, most of the time by herself. While she sometimes gets caught or in trouble, she never loses her determination and manages to rise above Jaime herself seems confident, intuitive, capable, modest and she successfully balances her time between her many jobs and responsibilities, yet the negative reaction from men to these things make these qualities seem undesirable. For example, in one episode, she showed enormous dedication to a mission that everyone else had given up on. This to me, shows great strength, yet the men on the show voiced their opinions that they thought her dedication was ridiculous and petty, and that it must have been a "woman" thing.

Overall, the sexism and ignorance of men is apparent in almost every aspect of this show. Even when Jaime does something good, it is shot down by a man warning women of the 1970's that if they are going to do these things they will not be accepted by the rest of the world. In this episode, men are power hungry, men are irrationally afraid of a powerful women, men are intimidated by women who enter "their" world" and men punish these women who allow their special talents to surface. Therefore it seems that most of these messages, the majority of which were not created by any of Jaime's personal negativity, point, in actuality, to the irrational fear and sexism on the part of the male television characters.