![]() ![]() ![]() She does NOT want to be a woman who is respectable for keeping a household and offering her body to the same (significantly older) man each night while having zero input on personal choices. Thus Doris learns how to navigate starvation and deprivation, and to distinguish between what she wants for herself and what she has to avoid at any (ANY!) cost. By disrespecting the women who play by the same rules they do themselves they can keep the principles intact and the world in their hands. They never marry the women they sleep with, as they lose all respect for them and want something "pure" for the altar. Of course the men have a solution to that small issue. ![]() Now I am asking myself how men are supposed to carry out their entitlement without the women? Idiot." "The principles: Men are entitled to it and women are not. Sexuality is the sword you fight with and also the knife that hurts you. It is easy to follow, it moves through the strange world of the early 1930s, and it approaches the evil through the perspective of a young woman whose only wish is to become a star despite her dialect and generally uneducated background. This is a Charlie Chaplin film on paper, in a way. You know those funny books that make you laugh while you read them, but they leave you sad and melancholy afterwards, for the bitter truths that you glimpse through the lighthearted banter? ![]()
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