Original Post Date: 01.26.17

I just finished watching the nostalgic thriller Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and man, those were the good old days… I keep forgetting how much I like the whole 80’s vibe in movies –it all seemed more organic, real, simple, innocent. I do not know if that association has anything to do with the fact that I was born in the 80’s (scratch that, pretty sure it does).

But I digress. This post is not meant to deal with my love for the 80’s nor is it to review Friday the 13th Part 2. This post is to give props to Ginny, the main female protagonist of the film.

Ginny is the assistant to the senior camp counselor, and she is also a student majoring in Child Psychology. Ginny has her hands full. All throughout her short stay at the camp counselor training center, located just a few miles away from the infamous and now condemn Camp Crystal Lake, yes, the Camp Crystal Lake, she has brilliant insights in regards to Jason Voorhees, the child legend. Ginny does not hesitate to offer her peers theories of what poor isolated Jason must have gone thru in his childhood, but her camp mates just make fun of how serious she sounds, because after all, for those folks it is all but a legend.

We have already established Ginny is smart, and that she is basically at harm’s way simply for being near Camp Crystal Lake. Enter Jason. All grown Jason. Scared, violent, and wearing a bag on his head, Jason.

Jason corrals Ginny in his shack in the woods, the one where he built the altar to his mother, yes, that famous altar with candles, fresh corpses, and the rotting severed head of Mrs. Voorhees. Ginny, being the resourceful student that she is, notices a torn sweater in front of the severed head, takes a few seconds to think, and goes for it. She puts it on. She has a plan. Suddenly, Jason slams the shack’s door wide open and, without hesitation, Ginny gives him this speech:

Damn, Ginny. You are smart and I admire that. Honest.

Stay in school, kids!

- Marath