If she actually had power over that scene, if Mr. Lynch had given her a voice, do you think she would have said, "I want the camera to linger on, to fetishize, my naked body for the viewer's pleasure. I want to be completely exposed while sitting next to a fully dressed man—a man who I apparently just had sex with,…

An actress who is an unknown (not famous) woman of color "consents" to allow a famous white male of extreme privilege to use her body in the way that I "consent" to hand my wallet over to a large man who is holding a knife to my throat. Privilege, power, consent. She "consents" to be used by him because she has to…

I get it. Even as a straight woman, I enjoy a beautiful female body. And sexuality/arousal isn't something we need to make excuses for—it's something to celebrate. We just need to be cognizant of the power dynamics. I was watching the show with three adult men, and when the camera was lingering on her body, they felt…

I'm very much in favor of exploring our shadow—it's the one thing that will save our culture from its current downward spiral into mass psychosis. However, the body of an anonymous woman of color does not exist as an object for a powerful white male to use to explore his shadow. The woman in the scene in question was…

Sorry, no, men don't get to "comment" on the objectification of women's bodies by objectifying women's bodies. That's still men using women's bodies for their own purposes, and it's still exploitative. Women's bodies aren't tools for men to use in their creative or political expression.