:24:07
Why do people
have to be so ugly,
:24:10
write about such ugly characters?
It's perverted.
:24:14
I know you all think
I'm being prissy,
:24:17
but I don't care.
I was brought up in a certain way,
:24:20
and this is...
:24:22
mean-spirited.
:24:25
Yeah. Well...
:24:29
it did seem a little...
:24:31
affected.
:24:33
Like by using taboo language,
you were trying
:24:38
to shock us about the hollowness
of your characters.
:24:43
I think it was
a little bit racist.
:24:46
It was completely racist.
:24:48
Beyond that, I felt
deeply offended as a woman.
:24:52
As if women could
only operate
:24:54
from experiences
of objectification.
:24:56
- Totally phallocentric.
- So weirdly misogynistic.
:25:00
Why does Jane
go through with this?
:25:03
Is she stupid?
:25:06
Hey, but wasn't
this a rape?
:25:08
Or did I miss something?
:25:11
I'm confused,
because if this was a rape,
:25:15
then why would she
be a whore?
:25:21
It was confessional,
yet dishonest.
:25:24
Jane pretends to be
horrified by the sexuality
:25:27
that she in fact
fetishizes.
:25:30
She subsumes herself
to the myth
:25:32
of black male
sexual potency,
:25:34
but then doesn't
follow through.
:25:36
She thinks she respects
Afro-Americans,
:25:40
and thinks they're
cool and exotic--
:25:42
what a notch
he'd make in her belt--
:25:45
But of course, it all comes down
to a Mandingo cliche,
:25:48
and he calls her on it.
:25:51
In classic racist tradition,
:25:54
she demonizes,
then runs for cover.
:25:56
But then, how could
she behave otherwise?