I think you make a very vaild point in saying that as a class we needed to take this into consideration, but I would have to disagree with you in saying that Lynch had no intentions of portraying Dorothy's life as being controlled by men. Like you said, Frank quite literally had Dorothy in the palms of his hands and Jeffery had the power to stop it. I think this is intentional because it goes along with the theme of this "underworld" being interconnected to the "pure" world. If you analyze just this, it would seem as though there was a difference between Frank: the bad and Jeffery: the good, but what you also have to take into account is the fact that 1) Dorothy never tried to stop Frank, nor did she seem to not like it and 2) Jeffery became even more connected to them by becoming a voyer and sometimes participant in this acts. I also disagree with you in saying that we were subjected to the idea of Jeffery's penis solving all of Dorothy's problems. I don't think Dorothy had a problem that needed to be solved. I feel as though she activly participated in the sadomasochism. Granted Frank did take her Huband and child captive, but that didn't mean she had to enjoy the "raping".
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