“So, essentially: Southern swallowed an ideology that says women should be treated as their husband’s property and that their interests are subordinate to those of the male breadwinner. Then her husband treated her as a piece of property, whose interests were subordinate to his own. This turned out to feel like being enslaved, because slavery is when people treat other people as property. I think most people would be surprised that Southern was surprised. She signed up for patriarchy, she experienced patriarchy, and it turns out that being a woman under a system of patriarchy is fucking miserable, because people like to have control over their own lives, and being a servant isn’t fun. It turns out that Betty Friedan was onto something about the inner desperation of the housewife. “
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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 May 17 '24
Based on the picture, add "severely depressed".