Status Updates From Secrets of the Flesh: A Lif...

Thurman suggests that Colette, who met her husband when she was TEN, secretly enjoyed and consented to a skewed power dynamic Colette herself avowed was abusive. She says he raped her, gave her an STI, forced her to sexually and socially entertain his mistresses in HER OWN BED, but Thurman implies she got a Sadean pleasure out of it!? Jesus fucking Christ. People need to get off their romanesque bullshit.

Man, the Dreyfus affair really revealed the ugly side of France.

Even before the relegalization of divorce in 1894, The Napoleonic code would've granted Colette a divorce from Willy when he brought his mistress into the shared home.

I had no idea Colette later confided to her third husband that Willy, her first husband, raped her. I can't say I'm surprised though.

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Learning more about Colette's father, and her brother Léo, shows me where exactly her fascination with blasé, feminine, peter pan male figures came from. I wonder if Léo in particular was inspiration for Alain in La chatte?

I wonder why Colette never addressed the violence of her mother Sido's first marriage. Instead, in her fairytale-like accounts, she addresses this relationship like it's Beauty and the Beast.

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