Blandine forbids self-pity, but she permits rage. When she takes inventory, she grants that many aspects of her Situation were enraging: in the end, she was insignificant to the person who was most significant to her; she freely entered a power dynamic that was prematurely fucked; she allowed herself to participate in the fracturing of a family, even if they remained together; her behavior was surely anti-feminist, although she hasn’t worked out the particulars of this, yet; she invited one person in the world to see her, and as soon as he did, he fled;
