This idea led to a discussion on the importance of models, from the perspective of education and feminism. We commented in particular the section on King Kong, which also provided a connection with contemporary feminist theories (namely Virginie Despentes' King Kong Theory, of which we read an excerpt in class a few weeks ago). We used the King Kong example to rethink gender roles and identification, a topic that Rosenthal puts at the center of her work.

We analyzed the relationship between the protagonist and her parents, namely through ideas of control and surveillance. In particular, we commented on the passage on Jeremy Bentham's panopticon and his role in dismantling a logocentric vision of the relationship between human and non-human animals, following Derrida's argument in L'animal que donc je suis.