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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

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by Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Goodreads Author)

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Hang on, aren't you simultaneously saying "Men think women are dangerous which is oppressive" and "Women -are- dangerous"? In which case men are right to believe that?
Ashley Hi! I was a little perplexed by the summary after reading the book, to be honest. I don't think it was intended for that at all, but others who have r…moreHi! I was a little perplexed by the summary after reading the book, to be honest. I don't think it was intended for that at all, but others who have read may respond if they would like.

Certainly women and men are both capable of dangerous acts, but I believe what the book ends up remarking on are violent acts, situations, or popular culture movies tend to favor blaming women, at different stages of their lives, for people's reaction to women. Such as many exorcism movies focusing on girls in the puberty stage acting strangely and thinking they are possessed, or tracing the actions of serial killers back to bad parenting (probably bad mothering).

I don't think it's saying that people (not just men, as other women are guilty of this as well) are right to believe that women are dangerous, rather saying that that they DO believe that women are dangerous and here are the arguments to prove that this is true, still happening, and to be aware.

Hope this helps!(less)
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