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Helen's perception of Daria is made clear in the final regular episode, "[[Boxing Daria]]." In this story, Helen and Jake learn that their daughter is concerned they considered her a burden. At this fear, they firmly explain that while her cynical and sardonic loner personality has been a concern, they consider it worth the price for having a gifted and perceptive daughter of deep principles.
==Feminism and
One of the main aspects of Helen Morgendorffer's character is her feminist beliefs, which are rooted in her involvement in the 1960s counter-culture.
A firm believer in gender equality, Helen has tried to instill the same sort of beliefs in her daughters. This often puts her in conflict with her youngest daughter Quinn, over her daughter's belief that her looks are the most important aspect of her life. ("[[See Jane Run]]") However, Helen is not a misandrist, as she loves her husband and while she may not approve of all of [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn's]] boyfriends, she is nonetheless kind and polite to young, middle-aged, and older men that she comes into contact with.
Helen has taken stances in past episodes against beauty standards for women, whilst simultaneously trying to get Daria to look less off-putting. In "[[This Year's Model]]" she expressed negative views about the modelling industry and about plastic surgery for girls & young women in "[[Too Cute]]"; however, right after stating plastic surgery was bad, she then started to talk about how it was understandable if a middle-aged women did it to get ahead in work. In "[[Of Human Bonding]]", after lecturing the [[Fashion Club]] about how a few lines and spots aren't sins and how women shouldn't be pushed aside just for age, she abruptly asks Sandi if her mother knows "a good collagen man". She keeps trying to hide her exact age. [[Glenn Eichler]] has stated this isn't a comment on Helen "so much as a comment on the pressures the working world exerts on women and on middle-aged adults in general".
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