I appreciate your saying all this. :clap::clap: We can see this aspect of Travis and still feel he is the ultimate victim, and that Jodi is without excuse.This is where Travis' hypocrisy really came out. He didn't want Jodi for a wife because she was, well, a *advertiser censored*. But continued to have sex with her while he did look out for a wife who was a virgin and was what he thought a wife should be. Not very cool.
But Jodi is not blameless. She had grown used to using her sexuality as a tool. Hell, she tried it with Flores too. She thought if she showed Travis a new sexual world and let him know how amazing it would be to have a freaky Mormon like her, how could he ever resist her? She was not respecting his faith by coming around and shaking her tail at him. And it backfired. It just made him lose respect for her. Serves her right.
I don't think Jodi is a *advertiser censored* myself. People are free to do what they please with their sex lives. If they want to use sex to get what they want, more power to them. It's her misrepresenting her part in their relationship that I have a problem with.
I do think Jodi had an emptiness within, and used outward things to compensate (dyed hair, trying to look like a bombshell, being creative and wild with sex). I think the idea that the sex would not work, and that a young virgin like Lisa would be the preferred object, had never occurred to her. By the time she caught on, she was horrified and the abyss loomed within. The rest, as they say, is history.
I can feel sorry for Jodi (and I really do) without making her a "victim" who should get off via "self defense". (such as some radical feminist types do ). If she gets convicted on murder one and gets the death penalty, I will understand ( I think even she will, despite her howls of protest).