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It might open her mind a bit more.

Ah. I see.

Let's just quote Simone de Beauvoir uncritically, because naturally everything she said is right.

Men feel no gap between their gender and what is expected of them. Naturally. That's why so depression, suicidality, and just all around giving up on life is so prevalent in men today...because they have no existential angst the way women do.

Maybe she should read some literature that has male protagonists

"Their desires evolve to fit their" circumstances (?) sorry, can not remember the exact word she used.

She's talking about literary characters, who when they are small don't want to get married, and when they are grown, do. Because they were forced to, and that's true for real women too. They are forced to, by society, by circumstances.

Maybe they just grew up? Maybe their tastes changed?

I swear this woman reads books at only the most superficial level, if she goes deeper at all, it's only to put a feminist spin on it.

But what does the book say about life? About morals? About meaning? About truth? About who you are and who you could be?

Yeah, Anne of Green Gables is about puffed sleeves, but it's also about being able to overcome and be successful no matter where you start out.

And you can absolutely identify with whoever you are reading, regardless of whether or not you look like them.

Just because some idiot girl tells you that you have to be the yellow power ranger because you are from the Philippines doesn't mean that you have to accept her narrative as truth.

You got angry, because you know it isn't true, and that it's ridiculous. So why do accept that narrative as an adult!?!

It's not always about being high-powered performance seekers.

And some women have a pathological aversion to spending money on things like athleisure wear and exercise classes and only do free things, and still somehow manage to be pursuing some ideal, be it beauty, energy, health, or whatever.

She's very convinced that she knows why everyone else is doing the things that they do.

It's almost as if this woman has never heard of the idea of projection.

Not every woman is in an exercise class because they want to be strong enough to work to have enough money to take this class to look hot and be strong enough to work.

Some women take exercise classes because they want energy, some for their health, some for their mental health, some for their attractiveness, and some for all of the above.

She's basically blaming everything on capitalism, but, well, capitalism has been around longer than feminism has, and so it should have had these effects before now. Isn't it interesting that these issues have only come about after feminism?

I wonder if this woman is ever going to come to the realization that even as she is railing against the current day's view of the ideal woman as someone in leisure wear going to get her nails done after yoga as shallow and lacking meaning, it is a direct creation of women putting into practice the feminists railing against motherhood in favor of building a career?

Oh my.

Men have never had to change themselves in order to make themselves marketable to women, the way women have always had to.

It's like history doesn't even exist.