User blog comment:David117/i've had sometime to think and.../@comment-1756703-20130928014149/@comment-4557745-20130929103459

I think you're confused on what a gold digger is. In case you're ill-informed, a gold digger is defined as a slang of a greedy person (sterotypically a woman) who only dates wealthy partners with the sole intention of being a beneficiary of said wealth. Now, by your own admission, you've said that money isn't the only thing that Courtney cares about. This, by sheer definition, excludes Courtney from the gold digger label.

If it's your intrepretation that Courtney got her just desserts by losing Duncan, fair enough. The show never was clear on what Courtney's true punishment was so technically any intrepretation would be accurate. In my stance, I find that Courtney being betrayed by her boyfriend in the very same episode was in and of itself her just deserts since her primary motivation was to win the competition by any means neccessary. I disagree that she deserved what Duncan did to her though. Nobody--regardless of their previous sins--deserves to be lied to, and if she really did deserve it, then it sends a bad message to the viewers in that it's somehow okay to lie and steal someone else's girlfirend, so long as that person is competitive. If that's really the theme you want to take from the show, that's fine I won't stop you. However, I firmly believe that two wrongs don't make a right and Duncan did a severally bad wrong in this case.

You're ignoring the fact that Gwen and Courtney bonded outside of hating Heather and/or loving Duncan. There were plenty of instances where they bonded without even mentioning either two of the personas, so the assertion that they only were friends on mutual agreement of opinions of certain people is unfounded. While it did certainly start up from their hatred of Heather, it later grew into a personal bonding of healing sunburnt hands and becoming geniunely interested in each other's summer projects--neither of which included conversations of Duncan or Heather.