Jenny Was a Horrendous C**t to Forrest Gump

November 22, 2023

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

I stumbled on a meme that really tickled my Jungian misogyny bone.

It got me to thinking about the plot in Forrest Gump. I decided then and there that I had a moral obligation to do this critique of possibly the worst female love interest in literary history who was meant to be a protagonist of sorts.

“Bye Forrest, I’ll be back when you’re a shrimp billionaire and I’m a single mom with AIDS,” reads the meme, encapsulating essentially the entire arc of her character.