Hi I've had this thing in my drafts for a while im just getting it out
As we know Purple Hyacinth is based on class struggle, tho I'd like to explore other forms of oppression as well, because well they're all intertwined, and I think gender based violence and oppression is really interesting to analyze in PH and just in general important to take into account when enjoying art
Also I'm due a reread and this is just very half-assed so if you have something you wanna add DO IT
Women don't really seem to face the level of the discrimination and violence women face in real life. But we know that with class structured society comes a lot of issues for women, for example being the protelariat of the protelariat (being the exploited class to distract the exploited class) tho PH doesn't really address this.
We know Lauren's mom was a Lawyer, Lauren, Kym and Lila are by all accounts part of the working class and we've also seen female doctors and female entrepreneurs(? you know Elvira the owner of the glass factory, so women can own private property.
Also there's no need for a sufragist movement because they live in a monarchy (I don't remember if it was a consitutional, parlamentary or absolute monarchy). If anything it'd be really interesting to see an anti-monarchy movement.
But I wouldn't say that poor women live the same easy lives as the upper class women, these women probably are stay at home mums, doing unpaid labor ontop of working a shift without any kind of labor protections, with poor access to reproductive healthcare and just care in general.
For example, regularly, poorer women (also specially WOC beacause class and race are intertwined) have higher mortality rates during childbirth because of bad health services. Therefore there are stillstruggles that women in Ardhalis may experience that are unique to them because of their gender and class, but beacause of Lauren's privilegded vantage point of view we may never get to know.
It's pretty minor, but Herman and March automatically asume Lune to be a man. And I know the male pronoun can be used "neutrally" but I would asume that both of them having female colleagues and specially knowing how capable they are (Lauren ofc Im talking about her i love herr) could understand that maybe a woman is also capable of such good investigation. Also Lauren decides to keep Lune as two men to take advantage of the sexist assumption that Lune's a man and avoid suspicion falling on her (she's a really smart cookie).
ALSOO these are points I haven't given much thought but I HAVE to get out of my head
I had another post that's about sexuality but mainly here we can see that women are expected to date and get married, it hasn't been explicitly stated but possibly also bring children. Point A, first episode is literally Lauren on a date. Point B, Neyra's whole subplot, which also brings to attention Will's and maybe the fact that in Ardhalis gender expectations are a bit more equal. idkk
Bella is interesting because she is on first glance the architype of a femme fatale, using her body to seduce and obtain what she needs. I think Kym also points out that female serial killers tend to use poisons rather than physical force is very interesting.
THE QUEEN IS ALSO SO VERY INTERESTING, she is in this position of power and uses it to amplify or heighten the class disparities. This contrasts the steriotype that women are more compassionate and resonable, because let me tell you If my kingdom was dying of hunger, If my people were dying like dogs out on the street, I'm doing whatever I can to better the people's lives
That´s all I have for now
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