-- adapting the same mindset towards their genders as her, all to feel like she has control over her own life. She wants to make them independent from men so they can be fully dependent on her instead, she calls that abuse her duty... Really good
I find so fascinating that despite the lack of main male characters misogyny is a central theme in this story, because Bernarda reduces herself to the role of wife and simultaneously subjugates the only people she has control over as such, her children, and grooms them into--
I'm logging off and not checking the replies on that tweet because I already got someone with “rapist” in the username retweeting it and I don't feel like thinking about it today. On another note I’ve been trying to get into Borges lately he makes my head spin (/pos, I think)
quick transfeminine reading of frankenstein!
a small dysphoria-centred point from my & @frnknsteinery's larger transfem analysis of frankenstein that i summarised last night. if anyone esp a transfem cld add onto this specific point/improve on the bride thing itd be appreciated.
aw man im sorry your mom died dude. although evolutionary psychology can actually explain a lot about why you're sad. see, when we were monkeys, we would get sad when our moms died because it meant we would get less berries,
So women can “embrace the ugliness that society rejects” only by serving monster-like men? They are not allowed to be monsters themselves? They always have to be reduced to the role of a caretaker, implying they are not themselves otherwise? Your internalized misogyny is showing.
It’s never about women’s own struggles with the patriarchy, it’s always about understanding men, helping men, empathizing with men, it’s all men, men, men, men, men. They exist as individuals with their own thoughts and desires besides being a motherly figure, you know.
The double standard with Victor and the creature really bothers me and I greatly dislike when movies push it (del Toro you Will pay) because it's mostly rooted in ableism and misogyny as Victor's experiences mirror those of a woman dealing with teen pregnancy in the 19th century
Like genuinely the amount of people I see saying Frankenstein is about how every family needs a mother to be stable when it's about how the patriarchal family unit is the archetypal setting in which child abuse and incestuous relationships develop makes me violent
People really think the creature is like that because he lacks a motherly woman in his life when Victor IS his mom, metaphorically and literally, he gave birth to him; and Victor's mom wanted him to marry his sister, women are more than capable of committing child abuse.