Sometimes the internet really comes through. Yesterday, the writers over at Jezebel tackled one of history’s biggest quandaries, one that’s been puzzled over for almost 20 years: “How were Jack and Rose fucking in that car?”
The query was part of the feminist site’s Titanic Thursday, which is exactly what it sounds like. Using Slack, screencaps, and one writer’s self-shot video testimonial, the Jezebel staff argued whether fictional characters Jack and Rose were doing it missionary style, doggy style, or some other more acrobatic way—not that all those ways aren’t relatively acrobatic when you consider they’re going at it while they’re packed into the back of a Model A or whatever. Joanna Rothkopf, the piece’s author, had originally believed that Rose’s steamy window hand-swipe couldn’t have happened given the positions James Cameron had placed Jack and Rose in: