Big Brother: The Desolation Of Jen Commentary by Cindy Rutolo Dietrich August 23, 2007
After a while, it starts to feel like verbal rape. I was literally
shaking, I was so enraged. Sometimes I can't believe they allow such verbal abuse to occur, and continue. It just goes on and on.
The Big Brother production team appeased ED. They replaced the cigarettes that Jen had
destroyed. That, apparently, though was the tipping point for her. Jen felt betrayed by Big Brother.
She said she'd asked for permission, before destroying his cigarettes.
So, apparently this was planned? It's not something I would have asked
permission for.
Because Jen felt BB broke the rules, or their word, she decided to break
the rules as well. She started to eat. She had been put on that
disgusting foodstuff called slop for the rest of her days. But I guess
she finally had enough of slop, and of her lot in the BB house.
So while ED swore at her, she ate. Maybe she figured, what the hell?
What did she have to lose any more? She broke her slop fast, with quiet,
rebellious tears spilling down.
I think that breaking this fast was a singular act of rebellion. It took guts and it was brave. It was an act of dignified rage. She'd put up with everything, until then.
Now, no one's speaking to her. She's all alone, even more so than ever
before. Maybe that's why she figures she shouldn't cooperate anymore?
When this girl was being verbally abused by ED, no one cared. Not about
her. Not about the abuse. No, they're pissed off not at Evel Dick
but at Jen, because she broke the slop fast, and the rules.
She'd put up with ED's abuse for so long before that. Jameka and the
others had only a little taste of that. But nothing like this. Plus,
they had each other to run to for comfort.
Even Jen comforted them. But
no one comforts Jen. They have no sympathy for her. None.
Jen is on her own and completely alone.
And ED has somehow made this treatment seem alright. He's been that
successful at dehumanizing her to the rest of them. It's like watching a
frightening example of a social experiment gone horribly wrong. It
proves anew how people throughout history felt validated in violating
victims by first dehumanizing them.
How Jen got burned, more figuratively than literally.
"She got burned. "Jess said. "But it was just the ash, and she was the
one grabbing at it. So, I guess she deserved it then?
This happened when Dick forcibly blew a gale of smoke into Jen's face to
prove that they'd given his cigarettes back to him. And, that he could
whatever he wanted to do, especially, to Jen. So, she smacked away the
smoke that he blew in her face. That's when she got burned by his ash.
And, when I thought I heard him threaten to burn her again.
That's when they froze the Showtime live feed.
But, we were still able to hear, and see. Only now we could see ED's
enraged face race across a multitude of TV's in a production room.
When I thought I saw him lunge. I thought, is this it? Will they
actually let ED hit?
That's of course, when they cut to commercial.
When it came back on, he was still raping her verbally. But Jen was
still eating, and holding her own. The fact that she wouldn't
disappear made ED lose it again. Then he wouldn't leave her alone because despite his abuse, she just wouldn't go away.
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