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A rant on pyramid schemes let’s go 😂

This lady has become delusional

I really like this book and the commentary on society and women and motherhood - but why must there be a pyramid scheme 😭😭😭

“and yet her husband - with the electronics skills, his engineering - he was the one who made all the money, even though she could make a world, and then, too, make a person to live in that world”

“How many generations of women had delayed their greatness only to have run out of time while men didn’t know what to do with theirs? […] How evil to praise women for giving up each and every dream”

“but still she had persevered, because it was fun, because it was a project that was just hers, because it was a mother’s artistic gesture in the face of obliterating domesticity”

Oh I get it. She is Nightbitch because she becomes a dog….at night…kinda clever

*aggressively highlights all of page 52 and 53*

I love the symbolism for her thinking she is becoming a dog to that of women not knowing themselves after having a baby. You become a new being. Such interesting symbolism

“Her sense that society, adulthood, marriage, motherhood, all these things, were somehow masterfully designed to put a woman in her place and keep her there […] And once she was stripped of all she had been, of her career, her comely figure, her ambition, her familiar hormones, an anti-feminist conspiracy seemed not only plausible but nearly inevitable”