Wit & Attitude Quote by Jessica Hahn

Coldness can be a kind of power move, and Jessica Hahn wields it here like a tabloid scalpel. The line is phrased as permission, not cruelty: "If he wants to..". shifts responsibility entirely onto Jim Bakker, turning his potential self-destruction into his choice, his mess, his narrative to own. It is less a death wish than a refusal to be recruited into the emotional theater that public scandals demand from women: sympathy, softness, absolution.

Context does a lot of work. Hahn became a national spectacle after alleging a sexual encounter with televangelist Bakker, a story that was quickly braided into the larger collapse of 1980s evangelical celebrity culture. By the time she delivers this, Bakker is no longer merely a man; he is a symbol in a moral panic economy, where tears and repentance are commodities. Her "I don't give a damn" is an exit from that marketplace. It denies Bakker the redemptive arc he might claim through public despair, and it denies the media a neat victim-and-villain script with her cast as the forgiving, wounded woman.

The intent reads as boundary-setting under klieg lights: I will not carry your consequence. The subtext is exhaustion with being made the footnote to his downfall, or worse, the cause of it. In a culture that often asks women to launder men's reputations with empathy, Hahn's bluntness is a rebuttal. It's not pretty, but it's legible: after being turned into an object lesson, she chooses indifference as her last word.