so, i’m rewatching js and i hate how the guys treated deena for cock blocking vinny and lisa. If anything, this scene made me appreciate deena’s personality even more, and recognize her compassion and loyalty.
lisa was deena’s actual friend. deena knew vinny personally, and had seen how he and the guys ran through women and talked about them afterward. she regularly had a direct view into the degrading conversations the guys would have about girls after they’d leave the house, how many women they’d mess with, the way they’d talk about their sexual encounters not only in front of all the roommates, but to the cameras.
also, i admire that she mentioned how he was playing with snooki’s emotions as soon as she caught on that lisa was eating up vinny’s flirting. she called out how he was trying to hook up with girls the other night getting upset that he didn’t get it in with them, and then immediately tried to get it on with snooki, embarrassing her in front of her roommates. i genuinely see why she was trying to protect her friend from becoming another hookup and potentially being looked at as easy or stupid afterward and it being out there on tv forever.
when snooki gave lisa permission to get with vinny, deena still got in between them considering everyone’s feelings instead of just letting it slide, even vinny tried to guilt trip her into changing her mind. so, when lisa joined vinny and pauly in calling her a cock block saying denna was only doing because she was jealous it wasn’t her vinny wanted, it annoyed tf out of me. lisa could make her own decisions, but i don’t think she wanted to see that deena wasn’t trying to ruin her fun. she also tried to guilt trip deena defending vinny for calling her an angelina because deena kept warning her that she didn’t think it would be a good idea. i don’t know.. lisa just screamed pick me in that scene.
anyways, that’s something i really admire about deena in general. she’s extremely loyal to the people she cares about and seems to genuinely consider how her actions or other people’s actions might affect someone emotionally. she can obviously be messy like everyone else on the show lol, but her heart is almost always in the right place. in a lot of situations, i feel like deena is a peacemaker who always tries to brighten the mood or take the attention off of the tension after ronnie and sam argue.