If anybody in the BSC thinks about doing something even remotely non-kosher, Kristy Thomas is there to wail about the potential fate of the Club. Mary Anne brings Logan over to play with Jake Kuhn? We’re RUINED! Stacey gets accused of stealing a ring–we’ll go out of business!
But like Bernie Madoff carefully making sure that everything in his office was arranged perfectly while he was busy defrauding people of billions of dollars, beneath Kristy’s superior, moralistic exterior lies a person who has made some pretty big mistakes in her life. What would Mrs. Newton, who fired a sitter for smoking a cigarette (a big sin in Stoneybrook), think if she knew that Kristy had a hand in graffiti-ing the equipment shed?
Stacey, while kind of having a rep has the resident Bad Girl of the BSC, turned down the alcohol at the concert. She followed her mother’s mildly illogical rule about staying in the kitchen with boys. Kristy thought that her mom and Watson’s rule about no significant others didn’t apply to her and Bart. As an athlete, she refused the offer of a cigarette, but she had few qualms about grabbing a can of spray paint to feel like part of a team.
And when Mary Anne needed to sneak out of her house in Mary Anne’s Revenge, who instructed her on how to do it? Not Claudia. Not Dawn, who has been involved in sneaking away to head shops/tea places in California. Nope, it’s Kristy who helps her out.
What should be made of Kristy’s dual nature? Is it that special kind of self-sabotage that is often found in great leaders, like talented and intelligent politicians who just can’t help themselves when it comes to adultery? Or does she simply not hold herself accountable to her own moral standards?
