Pam deserved more. She deserved more from the strangers who devoured her sex tape despite its provenance. She deserved more from the courts, which repeatedly sided with greedy men who profited off her tattered privacy.
Pam deserved more from Tommy, whose inability to appreciate his wife’s perspective bordered on the sociopathic. It’s indisputably different to be the woman in a celebrity sex tape! Men admired Tommy when they watched that video. They coveted his knock-out of a wife; they coveted his giant cock, which sadly stopped talking to him after episode two.
And Pam absolutely deserved more from Pam & Tommy, which promised vindication but ultimately reduced the fact of her personhood to some dude’s epiphany. That Rand Gauthier eventually recognizes Pamela Anderson as an innocent victim is part of his undeserved and, I’d argue, unrealized redemption arc.
I’m so annoyed that I could scream. (I did scream a little, but I could still scream more.)
It’s June 1996 and Mötley Crüe is hosting an intimate fan event in the same Tower Records parking lot where pirated copies of…
