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SHIREEN MCQUADE's avatar

Freya, this is brilliant! Thank you so much for expressing what I could not articulate to my wonderful daughter when she tried to brace me about a deviation in the movie from the book - Daisy Jones and The Six. Camilla, who is compassionate and family oriented throughout the book, has an affair in the movie just to get back her sense of self. I understood this was director Reece Witherspoon’s misguided attempt to “empower” Camilla, but in doing so, the book version of Camilla’s integrity-to-the-bone is lost.

And the idea that monogamy is feminist is absurd. I grew up in Middle East and N. Africa where men could have multiple wives AT ANY TIME. Women lived under constant fear of the husband being able to divorce her by just saying “I divorce you” three times, or marrying another woman or several women.

I could not understand and still don’t, why what we bring to the table is not valued by women themselves or society: sewing, quilting, cooking, gardening, love of children, caring for family. I didn’t understand why I had to adopt the traits of men instead of having the men adopt some of our traits.

And I’m a radical feminist. Probably more of the International feminist brand though.

Thank you again for expressing what I could not articulate. I loathe this false brand of feminism which seems to be steeped in self-loathing. Very sad.

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Konstantin Kisin's avatar

Great piece!

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