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Originally Posted by birdbrainbb
I'm still reading Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope, and I'm still enjoying it...but...he's started going on tangents about women liking it when men abuse them and how a woman (or a man, to be fair) isn't happy unless they're married and how women forgive crimes/lying/etc more easily than a man because they can't recognize it for what it is. And. Well. It's sort of making me angry. I know it's Victorian morals and what not, but seriously! I knew they had some messed-up ideas about women, but it's kind of shocking to see them laid out there straight on. Know what I mean? And it's said so matter-of-factly, too.
I'm glad we've (almost completely) moved on from that mindset now in our times, sheesh.
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You describe exactly the reason I despise Victorian lit so badly. Even (gasp!) Austen. It is clearly fictional and unrelated to reality, but it always has underlying morals lessons. Morals that make me want to scream, "You stupid girls! Why do you devalue yourselves like that?"