>>41418704
I read The Bell Jar, I quite liked it and related to Esther in her alienation even if she was flippant at times and idk, its not my favourite book but its not the worst; I liked some of her poems and I read her diaries too. Maybe she would have pooned out if she was alive today but I don't know. Still I feel like a lot of the things she derides especially about femininty aren't as bad as she makes them out to be. I'll forgive Sylvia because it was the 1960's but I can't stand when women complain about society being bad to them or whatever (periods and female anatomy complaints are obviously valid as are specifically bad and gendered experiances) but like there's so many flippant complaints that women have with their social role that are actually blessings and they really don't know how much worse their lives would have been if (all other birth and life circumstances remaining roughly analogous) they were born male.