I assume this show is attempting to at least be optically liberal, but after season 2 I definitely would not call it progressive at all. I'm bummed to feel so disappointed because I feel there is so much potential. I understand that there is a wild variety of socioeconomic status in college (I myself went to a school where the super rich were disgustingly in your face) but the fact that Leighton happily- and seemingly unquestioningly leverages her mom's $30,000 donation to the women's center instead of the sorority yet couldn't be bothered to provide any financial support at all for her good friend Kimberly who decided to undergo life altering surgery and sell her off body parts to afford tuition is just ...really nasty to me. Of course the women's center is a worthy cause, but when Bela jokingly suggested earlier in the season that Kimberly ask her rich friends for help, Leighton made up all sorts of excuses about her parents' money being tied up in real estate. In another episode, she bribes a friend with the purchase of a fancy jacket to help set her up with Tatum. Clearly, she has the ability to throw money around but she didn't offer to help Kimberly at all, except for giving her shots and a ride to the procedure, which I think anyone of a lower financial status would have done as well.

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I think this says a lot about the whole charity model vs. mutual aid concept and the fact that a show like this isn't progressive at all for the way it handled the situation. Now I find Leighton even more unlikeable and it really cheapens the idea of their friendship.