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The main feature of this character was that, all through the show Barch constantly display her her deep harboured resentment of all men, caused the her divorce from her husband of twenty-two years. Almost everything she said on the show would inevitably digress into ravings about how her husband left her, or about men in general are selfish, untrustworthy and would abandon their female companions after the best years fo their lives.
This behaviour and hatred of men passed on to her teaching, where she would give lower grades to male students, and distort even basic school science knowledge by including negative references to the male sex. She once deliberately made [[Kevin Thompson]] do an "experiment" designed to crush his self-esteem ("[[Too Cute]]"). She also uses "spend[ing] the period in independent study" as a threat against students like [[Upchuck]] - as "independent study" is a euphamism for being confined in a closet, something that caused Upchuck fear ("[[Fizz Ed]]").
In "[[The Big House]]", during a hockey game against DJs, Barch is seen having [[Rock and Roll Randy]] in a headlock and punching him repeatedly while snarling "It's payback time, Randy!". It sounded like a personal vendetta: was Randy intended to have been her ex-husband?
Despite her misandry damaging her ability to teach, Barch seems to have some sense of pride in her work - in "[[Fizz Ed]]", when she was forced to give inane lessons that would promote [[Ultra Cola]], she was clearly fed up and responded to her suggested 'lesson plan' by announcing "or I can just spend the rest of the day in the teachers' bathroom, staring at the tiles" and then walking out. Later, in "[[Lucky Strike]]", she was the first teacher during union negotiations to bluntly ask Li "are we getting our raise or not?", and took a key role in the union strike by crafting the picket signs (which weren't fit for purpose and had to be redone by [[Jane Lane]]).
===Relationship with Timothy O'Neill===
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Janet Barch would start a a romantic relationship with colleague [[Timothy O'Neill]] in episode [[The Daria Hunter]], which would last for the remaining of the series. The relationship was based initially on the attraction of a man with sensitivity, a concept she found paradoxical. In said relationship, she was extremely domineering and assertive, but the situation seemed to work well for both parties.
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