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The Bread the Devil Knead

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“They had talent enough for it, Sir,’ rejoined the chairman, ‘and would have been, but for the prejudices of society. Let women have their rights, Sir, and the females of Tom’s family would have been every one of ’em in office. But that emancipation hasn’t come yet, and hadn’t then, and consequently they confined themselves to the bosoms of their families, cooked the dinners, mended the clothes, minded the children, comforted their husbands, and attended to the house-keeping generally. It’s a hard thing upon the women, gentlemen, that they are limited to such a sphere of action as this; very hard.”

“La reine n’était plus régente. Elle avait offert un garçon au trône d’Arcavie et l’avait guidé jusqu’à ce jour fatidique : elle avait accompli son devoir. Désormais, son existence se résumait à un souvenir silencieux. On lui rendrait hommage en érigeant une statue à son effigie dans l’allée des Reines. Tel le bloc de marbre taillé à son image, elle serait impérissable, inaliénable, immortelle. Et par-dessus tout, dépourvue de la parole. En cet instant, Esther rêvait de briser les sculptures de toutes ces femmes de roi à qui l’on avait ôté la voix. Une fois leurs ersatz de pierre détruits, entendrait-on leurs cris révoltés ?”

“It is tempting to think of such men as a deviant sub-culture, a pathological underground, a sick minority. Yet splatter films which revel in pornographic scenes where women are tortured and killed are part of the mainstream; music videos celebrating male violence against women to the point of death and beyond are also mainstream. Misogynist hate propaganda is so normalised it has faded into the texture of the everyday – and we barely notice how pervasive it is.”