Titanic is trending, which means Rose Dawson is being slandered. So, it's time to present my case again on why Rose Dawson is not at fault for Jack's death, that he is solely to blame, and remind folks that she, in fact, saved his life.
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Remember when he's jailed by the Master-of-Arms and abandoned, handcuffed to that huge pipe? Rose knows something's up, but instead of getting into the lifeboat with her mother and Molly Brown, she declines a seat to go find Jack.
Cal grabs her by the arms and threatens her. She spits in his face and runs away. She then finds Mr. Ismay, who is condescending and tells her she needs to get back into the lifeboat. And she's all "fuck that" and makes him give her directions to the Master-of-Arms' office.
She tries to go down the lift and is told condescendingly by the male attendant that it's not working. She's all "fuck that" and makes the guy take her down. She's in freezing cold water, in heels no less, wading through the myriad of passageways and manages to find Jack.
Jack asks her to go get help when the keys don't work. It's dark, chaotic, freezing-ass cold. So, she comes across a crew member, who grabs her by the arm, refuses to listen and mansplains about how she needs to go into a lifeboat.
She punches him and has the ingenuity to find the axe, which she uses to go downstairs and free Jack from certain death with a clutch swing on her first try to break the cuffs.
So, she had to deal with 4 patronizing men, 2 of them physically abusive, and still found a solution to save Jack when no one else would. If that weren't enough, she gives up her seat in the lifeboat A SECOND TIME when she realizes Jack is probably going to die without her.
They plunge into the sea. Jack tries to be a hero. He could have swum elsewhere but no. He chooses to stick around with this tiny-ass debris. Jack even punches some guy who tries to get onto the debris, so even HE clearly doubted it could handle two people. Yet, he still stayed.
Jack, being a male conditioned to think of women as the weaker sex and in need of saving, decided to stick around and gamble on his life despite KNOWING what icy water does, as he elaborately explains to Rose earlier in the film, even though she was clearly safe(r) by that point.
In summary: Rose is in NO way responsible for Jack's death. If anything, she's the hero of the damn story for overcoming violent misogyny to save his life and risking her own multiple times to do so. Her conduct was selfless and brave. So, what killed him? It's pretty clear...
Toxic masculinity killed young Jack Dawson. If he had more self-respect and more respect for Rose, he would have searched for other debris, trusting Rose to take care of herself on that damn door. Jack is to blame for Jack's death + negating a fantastic rescue operation by Rose.
So, what have we learned gentlemen? Treat the women in your life as equal partners and remember that self-care is just as important as caring for others. Your macho bullshit gets puts everyone in danger and leads to an icy death in the cruel waters of the Atlantic.
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