#women are a bunch of catty gossips with no good judgment. men are cheating dogs and you should forgive them for it
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well i finished the women (1936) by clare boothe luce. i did not like that as much as i was expecting.
#you wanna talk about how ppl act like all literature written by women is inherently feminist... brother#tales from diana#she has a genuine disgust for her own characters EXCEPT for mary. but choosing to get a divorce is still the greatest sin of her life#i love when im consuming 20th century entertainment and all the sudden i realize it's anti-divorce propaganda#the first act was alright but by the time i realized how it was going to end i was severely disappointed#it's not that i can't stand literature where basically all the characters are bad people. but the moral of the story is also bad#also boothe's stage directions were awful in how she described characters and scenes and just further illustrated how much she hated#the company of other women and thought she was so superior to all of them in her class basically.#all anyone ever told me about this story was that it had an all-female cast and i think a lot of boothe's storytelling methods#were really interesting in innovative in how she pulled that off.#but trust me. it does not pass the bechdel test lol#women are a bunch of catty gossips with no good judgment. men are cheating dogs and you should forgive them for it#even when they gallivant around town with their mistresses and go home and mistreat you. is what i learned from this play#a shame bc as far as her skill for dialogue and scene-setting it's really admirable.#but the soul of the play is rotten to the core. im so very let-down by this
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