It comes from a feeling of ownership, where she isn’t considered past gender norms. As society has become less attached to antiquated ideas and more cognizant of trauma, the oversimplification of Jenny’s character has died down. It’s really a pretty neat societal study.
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june@lemmy.world 5 months agoNot sure why you were downvoted, but this is always how I saw it. Jenny wasn’t the terrible person she’s so often been made out to be, she was deeply broken and dealing with massive trauma, of course she’s going to act irrationally.
She’s an amazing character with so much depth that most people just reduce to ‘that selfish bitch’. It irks me.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It irks me too. The scene where she’s contemplating killing herself while freebird plays isn’t subtle at all about her state of mind and where her life has got her. Yet some people seem incapable of actually understanding that Jenny isn’t hateful to Forrest and is a flawed human being.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 months ago
It’s almost like our society has deeply internalized issues with misogyny or something.