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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Hmm. Interesting. But, if it was a truly feminist novel the women wouldn't have all hated each other and back-stabbed each other (the producer who seems evolved but has affair and lies on TV, mother screams at daughter that she's horrible after she tells DD she cheated on father, protag relationship with daughters, and on...). Feminists believe in the collective power of women. That was missing. [/quote]

Maybe I missed something or misread it, but I didn't take it that the producer was lying. I read it as either Natalie was an unreliable narrator, or the situation was somewhat ambiguous.[/quote]

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