VLVL2 (2) Friday the 13th's 'Final Girl'

[Terrance]

> The critical works cited here are all products of the cultural debates
> of the 1980s. In VL Pynchon presents such debates as debates, without
> offering resolution, without making this or that character a mouthpiece
> for a given POV.

What '80's cultural debates are presented as mere debates in VL? 

Can't think of one. And if P avoids the mouthpiece ploy (obviously the
way he creates characters and themes in his other novels) in VL (I doubt
this is true) how does he present these debates?