Dame Eileen Atkins on one of 'our' Pynchonian topics

[Becky Lindroos]

A chunk of that’s because it’s the script they grew up with - and so too for the guys they marry - a bad cycle, hard to break and sometimes part of a whole culture and its history.  It’s not been that long since a woman was essentially a man’s property in the US/Europe. 

Becky 


> On Jan 16, 2016, at 6:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "The Taming of the Shrew' is an awkward play for gender relations But
> there are still a lot of women who would marry a man such as
> Petruchio, and get treated as Katherina does – and enjoy being told to
> go into the kitchen and shut up! I just don't think you can block out
> the idea that some women desire subjugation. I'm getting into
> dangerous waters here, but the fact that Isis can attract women to go
> to a life in which they know they will be totally subjugated, I'm
> afraid shows that there is something in the female psyche which
> desires that."
> 
> Re: Taming of the Shrew. I love Germaine Greer on it, arguing,
> Katherine gives as good as she subjugates and Petruchio feels THAT,
> ah, humbling?.
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