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The author is extremely biased and resentful and misogynistic of individual women in her life and agrees with her dad women in his life are all horrible to him for not getting over his adultery (and blames them for it alongside him and accuses them of dragging her into it while stating it’s literally her dad taking her even at six out on these dates or bringing the women into the home and blaming her mom for awkward it is?? Or not knowing but it’s a catch 22 where her getting mad is also bad??) or other women and saying women take their husbands for granted Omg. There’s not a single time in the book where the author doesn’t defend men cheating on women.
It really paints women as hysterical and resents her mother for things men did that she explicitly says her mom didn’t even know about and also like …literlaly has disturbing stories of trying to get men who aren’t a psychologist to diagnose her mother for her father to make her a better wife (that’s very clearly a non career woman that revolves entirely around her husband given the examples and how there’s something hysterically wrong with Every Woman he’s serious with including them expecting him to help with bags or cleaning or expecting him to be their friend or not liking the same…shows as him like one of the things her mother is damned for is literally falling asleep during tv shows her dad likes and it’s like you not are reliable source on this woman’s faults unfortunately) and literally talking about fantasizing about drugging her mother forcibly or poisoning her to make her more likeable to her brother and years later getting caught writing wanting to commit the mother forcibly to her dad and it’s like…no shit it’s obvious the entire family treated the mother as stupid and openly wished her ill and violence no wonder the woman was paranoid. Those are not normal thoughts to have and it’s very obvious even if your dad puts you in charge of ur mother at points that he encourages this as did his family?? Like no shit she didn’t like them. Also treating the dad threatening suicide as proof of the mom being emotionally abusive and not the father and just brushing the mom saying he interferes with her trying to get a drivers if as slander it’s crazy. And the housework demand is plainly sexist Bs but it’s even worse when you know this family had house staff so it’s like god forbid he do shit at his own house I guess.
Also you would not know from this book her mother outranked the dad politically and for longer and her dad was only mayor for a literal year. His politics are never wrong and only well or not connected as makes him look good while the mom is an idiot unearned and is somehow too radical to accept reform safeguards for women but also too conservative.
Like hell I’ve known conservative women or misogynistic liberal women that do tell lies they believe to be true and their kids never wished them death or psychological violence of institutionalizing them or said the woman knowing her husband would cheat on her caused it vs the man’s own free will and shitty personality. Let alone acted like the other stating that she knows they feel that way is emotional abuse to the kid?? Versus the mother being aware her entire family harasses her?? It’s such a misogynistic book.
I am biased that the authors ties to Israeli film people and dedication to Bush admin foreign affairs also negatively affected me but politically besides dashes of anti Arab (as if Iran isn’t run by Persians no matter if people want to blame the ‘Arab conquest’) sentiment here or there the book isn’t anti Islam at all and read liberal to left imo (similarly to how the author herself has said she’s never supported military action against Iran and democracy must come from within) and I believe her about her leftist college days even if it makes knowing she DID PR work for American neocons no less true or less disturbing. But the book itself I don’t think is going to teach some dramatic lie or colonial view, it’s very realistic and negative about the Shah’s anti democratic policies and the royal family but also fairly critical and negative of theocracy and frankly not that much even about the Islamic Regime (and the book is honest that prejudices to minorities if exasperated existed prior to the regime) even if I’d still recommend Persepolis beforehand and I get why one Iranian diaspora in my life didn’t recommend the book.
It really paints women as hysterical and resents her mother for things men did that she explicitly says her mom didn’t even know about and also like …literlaly has disturbing stories of trying to get men who aren’t a psychologist to diagnose her mother for her father to make her a better wife (that’s very clearly a non career woman that revolves entirely around her husband given the examples and how there’s something hysterically wrong with Every Woman he’s serious with including them expecting him to help with bags or cleaning or expecting him to be their friend or not liking the same…shows as him like one of the things her mother is damned for is literally falling asleep during tv shows her dad likes and it’s like you not are reliable source on this woman’s faults unfortunately) and literally talking about fantasizing about drugging her mother forcibly or poisoning her to make her more likeable to her brother and years later getting caught writing wanting to commit the mother forcibly to her dad and it’s like…no shit it’s obvious the entire family treated the mother as stupid and openly wished her ill and violence no wonder the woman was paranoid. Those are not normal thoughts to have and it’s very obvious even if your dad puts you in charge of ur mother at points that he encourages this as did his family?? Like no shit she didn’t like them. Also treating the dad threatening suicide as proof of the mom being emotionally abusive and not the father and just brushing the mom saying he interferes with her trying to get a drivers if as slander it’s crazy. And the housework demand is plainly sexist Bs but it’s even worse when you know this family had house staff so it’s like god forbid he do shit at his own house I guess.
Also you would not know from this book her mother outranked the dad politically and for longer and her dad was only mayor for a literal year. His politics are never wrong and only well or not connected as makes him look good while the mom is an idiot unearned and is somehow too radical to accept reform safeguards for women but also too conservative.
Like hell I’ve known conservative women or misogynistic liberal women that do tell lies they believe to be true and their kids never wished them death or psychological violence of institutionalizing them or said the woman knowing her husband would cheat on her caused it vs the man’s own free will and shitty personality. Let alone acted like the other stating that she knows they feel that way is emotional abuse to the kid?? Versus the mother being aware her entire family harasses her?? It’s such a misogynistic book.
I am biased that the authors ties to Israeli film people and dedication to Bush admin foreign affairs also negatively affected me but politically besides dashes of anti Arab (as if Iran isn’t run by Persians no matter if people want to blame the ‘Arab conquest’) sentiment here or there the book isn’t anti Islam at all and read liberal to left imo (similarly to how the author herself has said she’s never supported military action against Iran and democracy must come from within) and I believe her about her leftist college days even if it makes knowing she DID PR work for American neocons no less true or less disturbing. But the book itself I don’t think is going to teach some dramatic lie or colonial view, it’s very realistic and negative about the Shah’s anti democratic policies and the royal family but also fairly critical and negative of theocracy and frankly not that much even about the Islamic Regime (and the book is honest that prejudices to minorities if exasperated existed prior to the regime) even if I’d still recommend Persepolis beforehand and I get why one Iranian diaspora in my life didn’t recommend the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexism, Violence