In terms of Jenny's rant on Mark, my respect for Jenny did a 180 in that scene. She was always the character I dismissed as "meh", and to see her actually showing herself to have that level of awareness of the dynamics of power impressed me.
Sure, a lot of men go through some very humiliating violations in all sorts of contexts--some from women, a LOT from other men higher on the pecking order, etc.
But Jenny was addressing in particular the situation Mark had put her and Shane in in their household--turning them into sex objects to be ogled in what they thought was the privacy of their own home. To see them as mere "entertainment for men".
You can't tell me a guy like Mark--or more to the point, Mark's clueless friend who was egging him on, or the producer funding him--had the slightest CLUE about what it felt like to be on the other side of the camera in their little scheme. These are arrogant, priviledged young white guys who can't see beyond the end of their dicks, excuse my French.
Mark was starting to come around a bit as the women befriended him and invited him into their circle, which is why he was going to 'fess up and put a stop to it. But even after he does so, his need to be forgiven and to prove "he's a better man, he's learned his lesson" still takes more precedence for him than acknowledging the depth of how wrong his actions were.
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Date: 2005-11-13 04:09 pm (UTC)Sure, a lot of men go through some very humiliating violations in all sorts of contexts--some from women, a LOT from other men higher on the pecking order, etc.
But Jenny was addressing in particular the situation Mark had put her and Shane in in their household--turning them into sex objects to be ogled in what they thought was the privacy of their own home. To see them as mere "entertainment for men".
You can't tell me a guy like Mark--or more to the point, Mark's clueless friend who was egging him on, or the producer funding him--had the slightest CLUE about what it felt like to be on the other side of the camera in their little scheme. These are arrogant, priviledged young white guys who can't see beyond the end of their dicks, excuse my French.
Mark was starting to come around a bit as the women befriended him and invited him into their circle, which is why he was going to 'fess up and put a stop to it. But even after he does so, his need to be forgiven and to prove "he's a better man, he's learned his lesson" still takes more precedence for him than acknowledging the depth of how wrong his actions were.