So, a rich woman is wronged by someone even richer than she is -- so she takes her revenge, for the most part, on poor people who had no part in wronging her, and no power to prevent or correct the situation. Typical.
Oh 100%. What I find interesting is that this was first published two years ago and the FB comments were all oh I love her she is so badass and I was all uh did you read what I wrote? She murdered a lot of innocent people. I just reposted on FB again and it's happening again.
We’re so used to historically simpering widows and women being enclosed by their 40’s after multiple children, that this story is a welcome example of a woman taking on active roles in midlife far outside gender-definitions. Revenge tales can always be regarded as “bad” morally, but the other aspects of this one set it apart.
I just like finding out that women can be just as terrible and powerful and evil. I don’t want “badasses” (a term which has been become annoyingly gendered to convey “woman does thing!”) in some always-heroic sense.
No seriously, I love learning about powerful, evil women who broke the gendered ways of being powerful and evil.
It's kind of mind-boggling, really. I've got a lot of thoughts about American worship of the rich, the difficulty so many people have holding two or more opposed but nonetheless accurate facts as simultaneously true in their minds (Yes, in some ways she was a badass. She was also a mass murderer of the innocent.), the perversion of feminism (in this case) being used to justify admiring this woman...and no time right now to make a cogent post about them.
Idk, not sure if I’d be reading a story of “and then she left only one person alive to tell the tale” unless it’s in the context of “pirates of antiquity and their various piratey exploits.” Definitely not a role model 😆
So, a rich woman is wronged by someone even richer than she is -- so she takes her revenge, for the most part, on poor people who had no part in wronging her, and no power to prevent or correct the situation. Typical.
Oh 100%. What I find interesting is that this was first published two years ago and the FB comments were all oh I love her she is so badass and I was all uh did you read what I wrote? She murdered a lot of innocent people. I just reposted on FB again and it's happening again.
We’re so used to historically simpering widows and women being enclosed by their 40’s after multiple children, that this story is a welcome example of a woman taking on active roles in midlife far outside gender-definitions. Revenge tales can always be regarded as “bad” morally, but the other aspects of this one set it apart.
I just like finding out that women can be just as terrible and powerful and evil. I don’t want “badasses” (a term which has been become annoyingly gendered to convey “woman does thing!”) in some always-heroic sense.
No seriously, I love learning about powerful, evil women who broke the gendered ways of being powerful and evil.
It's kind of mind-boggling, really. I've got a lot of thoughts about American worship of the rich, the difficulty so many people have holding two or more opposed but nonetheless accurate facts as simultaneously true in their minds (Yes, in some ways she was a badass. She was also a mass murderer of the innocent.), the perversion of feminism (in this case) being used to justify admiring this woman...and no time right now to make a cogent post about them.
I want a children’s book of her story to read to my granddaughter.
Idk, not sure if I’d be reading a story of “and then she left only one person alive to tell the tale” unless it’s in the context of “pirates of antiquity and their various piratey exploits.” Definitely not a role model 😆
I want her prepared for public school
Definitely would have been a feel-good story, if she only sought revenge by murdering the man who murdered her hubby.
Interesting read, however. 😁👍