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Jul 17, 2022Liked by Janice Fiamengo

Well, as I don't have a subscription to Netflix I am unlikely to ever see this latest adaptation. What is worrying though is that those who have not read Austen's book will see the film and think it a genuine reflection of the story. The taint of feminism poisons everything it touches.

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Jul 17, 2022Liked by Janice Fiamengo

Along the same lines of false feminist assumptions, there’s the notion that women’s contributions to science are regularly discounted, sidelined or ignored. A good City Journal article recently goes after Nature magazine for basically lying to uphold this myth. Called The Myth of the Wronged Heroine, if you haven’t seen it already.

https://www.city-journal.org/feminist-myths-about-women-in-science

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For the most part, Jane Austen would be appalled at most of the recent film adaptations of her work. The Emma Thompson/Kate Winslett adaptation of S and S was quite good, but the others all insist on either a feminist slant that would have sent Austen screaming into the night or a bodice-ripper one that she expressly rejected. It's one thing to interpret an author's work, another entirely to contradict it while still using its characters, plot, title, etc.

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It's despicable how feminists have claimed Jane Austen and warped her work.

In Seattle a few years ago I was taken by a friend to see a play that was advertised as "Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice" in which the daughters were played by men who had pants on under skirts that had a split up the front, just to make sure nobody in the audience missed the fact that these bearded performers were not actually women. The mother uses noisemakers, including the kind of horns that clowns use, and i don't think a single line from the book. Later, I looked up the writer, who is a feminist quite proud of herself for her "adaptation." How it's feminist to dress men up as Jane Austen's young women characters is beyond me.

On a visit to the Seattle Art Museum, I heard a docent telling a group of girls that women in 19th century Paris were not allowed to go out and paint, or do anything, without a chaperone. I bet Jane Avril would have been surprised to hear that! But it's in complete conformity with how feminists want us to view not only the past, but the present -- women being always and only victims of men.

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