UK: 'Penny Dreadful' Is Proving That Misandry In Feminism Can Be Fun

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'Feminism fueled by anger isn’t sexy or fun. These days, it’s all the rage to ask celebrities if they identify with the F-word. Regardless of whether they have any background in the subject, we treat their fame like it gives them cultural authority and condemn them when they give the wrong answer. Many dance around it, because a wrong answer is all too easy: If you shy away from it, you’re sexist, but if you embrace it too wholeheartedly, you’re an angry, shrill, unchill feminist.
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In Season 3, she uses her new immortality to recruit women who are in the same position she once was — whores — and incite them to rise up. Her methods are unconventional. They’re a mixture of her own seduction, as she invites them into bed with her male partner, and encouragements of brutality. “Go now to those dark streets you know so well,” she tells them. “Find me a bad man, a faithless husband, a cruel lover… Find him and bring me his right hand. Cut it off.”

This is not pleasant, easy-to-swallow feminism. It’s not politically correct. It’s everything other shows and celebrities reject when they shrink from the label of “feminism.” It’s bra-burning and violently rejecting the male presence and sticking it to The Man and maybe even murdering him. It’s extreme. But it’s a mindset so many shows avoid like the plague, convinced it can’t be fun for all viewers to watch. Lily and Penny Dreadful prove that notion is silly.'