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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hated it. Def not satire, with nothing to add to conversation. [b]It basically was a anti-feminist treatise[/b] -- all women are miserable, let's hate on the one who is the worst, and excuse all the slacker men. It was DCUM personified, frankly. [/quote] I had a 180-degree different understanding! I thought the message was you could basically never flourish (or even, in this story, survive) by trying to meet the standards of the patriarchy. There is no real "winning" if you stayed in this system. Certainly that applies to women - from the protagonist to her Harvard roommate - but also, as the story suggested, to men too. It was pretty clear that her husband, who was depicted as a fairly awful, pathetic character, really would have only been "realized" if he had naturally progressed into being a yoga mat-toting kindergarten teacher, which of course the system did not permit![/quote]
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