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Feb 20Liked by Susan Bordo

Brilliant deconstruction of the episode.

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Thank you so much!

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Feb 20Liked by Susan Bordo

Susan Bordo, thank you for your creative and intelligent writing

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And thank you for saying so!

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Feb 20Liked by Susan Bordo

I don't think I can love this more❣️ it captures all I experienced so beautifully.

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Thank you so, so much!

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Feb 20Liked by Susan Bordo

I appreciate your take on this show. It helped me to understand and enjoy it, somewhat, as overrall I found it depressing and sad. One of my nieces who I met for lunch today is very much into women's issues and hadn't heard of the series, so I recommended it to her. We discussed the movie "Poor Things," which was nominated for several awards. I saw it with my wife and she disliked it intensely, as did my niece, who described it as justifying rape and pedophilia. Just as a dog can smell and hear things we cannot, same with a cat, women can sense and understand things men cannot, even though we have the one X chromosome. So I can pretend to understand certain things or "get it," but I'm not good at pretending. Thank G-d for that one X chromosome. Where would I be without it?

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Yeah, some things really bring those differences out. There was a major gender difference in reactions to Fani Willis’s testimony too. Women loved it. Men not so much.

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