The Unsympathetic Sheepdog

Wolves, Sheep, And The Unsympathetic Sheepdog

To be limited by society creates a prison of four walls around you, walls made of a lack of expectations, doubt, anger, hatred, and isolation, these walls solidify until they are indestructible, to the point where any force that offers immediate gain attracts the disenfranchised. These walls are present all throughout Emma Cline’s The Girls, Evie, is limited her entire life by a lack of power afforded to her and by her beauty being her only quality of worth, from here she is easily absorbed into the cult world that befalls her. As Evie grows she is continually diminished based on her gender, a fact that continuously enrages her, however by viewing her internal dialogue it is clear that she herself …show more content…
Just as toilets will be locked and wall plugs will be covered and yet a world of hatred and bigotry will be accepted as mom and dad smoke in the other room, that is the softening society grants. And for those not protected by their linear protections, they are abandoned to make their way in the world, as money is thrown at problems without anyone considering what solution the problem actually requires, that is what happens to the disenfranchised in this world. People are discarded and left to fall through the cracks, and women have more excuses than most to fall through, as the government launches arbitrary movements that don’t address primary problems and merely symptoms. Where the civilized world fails the seedy underbelly thrives, for every woman that is forced to endure an abusive relationship or gets passed on a promotion at work, that is another woman that no longer believes in the system she exists within, that is a woman that is now weak to the influence of the wolves. Feminism is a movement that will never die, it has become profitable to be a feminist, it has become the trend, if you’re a politician you are a feminist, if you are and actor you are a feminist, this is mindless dribble, feminism isn’t a label it is a badge to wear if you accomplish something, but society has twisted and contorted what was at its core a deeply progressive and active movement, and has altered it into a movement of virtue signaling and self aggrandizement. Evie would be ashamed, as she should be, she witnessed a world that was deeply troubled, a world that needed aid desperately, and a world inhabited by champions willing to fight, today she would see a world too busy congratulating itself and arguing over nothing at all. Today Evie would see what she