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Penelope is not a feminist. Penelope is a capitalist. She's a businesswoman. She can be a feminist character, as in, a character who is a well rounded woman with agency and power and flaws that we can uphold as good representation of a full woman, without being a feminist herself. When people claim Penelope is a feminist, they do so partly because of her intersection with Eloise, and partly because she makes her own money. But I think the truth is that Penelope really isn't interested in pursuing or fighting for the rights of women. Which is why her speech to Colin in their wedding fight felt so jarring. Penelope never used Whistledown to uplift women or give them more power. She was never a scholar of feminist study.
She felt how their society stifled her, but she didn't have feminist criticisms of that society. In many ways, she escaped from beneath the thumb: she makes her own funds, has her own pursuits, and saw getting a husband in S3 as a way of securing her freedom. But even that felt strange and forced, because Penelope was ALWAYS interested in marrying for love. She loves dances and society and the pomp of it all. She's a romantic. She was never in full agreement with Eloise in fighting for women in general to have opportunities outside of marriage, because for Penelope, she's fine with marriage being the expectation. S3 just shoehorned in that she wanted a husband for the sake of freedom from her mother as a plot device to push her and Colin together faster.
In the same way that Penelope had a friendship with Gen, who is a working woman, without being part of the working class herself, Penelope has a friendship with Eloise, who is a feminist, without being part of the feminist movement or ideology. Penelope didn't use Whistledown for feminist purposes, she used it for personal and capitalistic purposes. Whistledown was her voice and her means of making money, it was her craft and her hobby. She didn't care to use it as a way to give voice to the voiceless or disseminate feminist ideology. Whilst gossip CAN be used to provide information to women so they could navigate the world more safely and with knowledge, that wasn't her pursuit, either.
That's also why Eloise's opinion on Whistledown changes in S2. In S1, she's enamored by the idea of Whistledown: it is proof that a woman can find power in society without having to marry, hope for Eloise that she could escape patriarchy's clutches. But by S2, she's displeased because she starts asking herself 'and what is she doing with it?'. Eloise sees that Lady Whistledown, though she achieves freedom that other women in their world don't have, falls in step with patriarchy in the same way that their society does. It's not a feminist publication. That's why Eloise starts pursuing other avenues to explore her feminism, and is so eager to find herself in feminist discussions with working class people. It's the first time she has an audience and connection with people who are also interested in women's rights. She didn't find that with Penelope because Penelope isn't interested in women's rights as a collective.
And I do kind of wish that the show acknowledged that instead of trying to retcon it. The feminist speeches from and to Penelope in S3 didn't land right because they had no real foundation. Portia's whole 'women don't have dreams, they have husbands' thing was used to make the audience sympathize with Penelope to keep LW and frame it as a feminist pursuit. And in many ways, it is! Women making their own money IS feminist. Just like divorce and abortion! But Penelope herself is not a feminist, so her qualms with it are not that ALL women should be able to make a living, but that SHE has made a living, and she did it through Whistledown. That's also why her fight with Colin after the wedding breakfast feels so hollow. She falls back on 'you wouldn't understand because you aren't a woman', when she never felt much kinship with women as a whole, regardless.
I think it all kind of got framed weirdly and got very murky. Colin wasn't asking Penelope to give up LW because he's her husband and wants to lord his opinion and will over her because she's his wife and thus his property. None of his concerns were because she was making her own funds or was an independent woman (sure, he was insecure about what he could provide for her if she didn't need him, but that's not why he was against LW continuing). They had just been threatened by the Queen of England at their wedding reception because she was pissed at LW and on the pursuit. Penelope framing it as a feminist issue felt tone deaf. The writers turned it into a feminist concern when it wasn't. The overarching narrative, women should get to have careers and money of their own, IS feminist, but Penelope getting pushback about Lady Whistledown specifically and wanting to hold onto it is NOT feminist. Does that makes sense? Even if she is a woman and LW is her career, it's not BECAUSE she's a woman with a career that Colin had concerns.
I know that's a bit of a quibble and getting into the weeds of things, but people attributing Penelope as being a feminist with feminist pursuits, as I see them do sometimes, just doesn't hold water. Penelope is a woman who's narrative can be interpreted as feminist, but she herself is not a feminist. Eloise is a feminist. Arguably, she's the only feminist main character we have. Eloise fights for the rights of women. Imperfectly, but still. Penelope fights for the rights of womAn, singular. Namely, herself. And that's okay. This isn't a criticism of Penelope.
Not every female character should be or is a feminist. But feminism is a specific political ideology, and Penelope just doesn't subscribe to it.
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It's great that franchaela is happening but it's a bit frustrating that only francesca is allowed to have an unconventional romance with Michaela, and that it has to be done after she is widowed. It gives the impression that the show is saying that a woman must be traditional and abide by societal norms before they can be "rewarded" with a happy ending. Meanwhile Eloise is flattened down, humbled, and tamed each season in a way no other more gender conforming/feminine woman in the show is. The audience is pushed to see her as unreasonable for expressing doubt and fear for the domestic future she is forced to have, and she must apologize for her unwillingness to be happy about the expectations placed on her and the women around her, while her own family disregards her beliefs and concerns. Oddly enough, her mother's actions would easily be villainized in another show- Violet's unwillingness to heed eloise's wants and efforts to socialize with other debutantes and instead pushing her into uncomfortable situations where she is either surrounded by men or forced to take classes on subjects she doesn't enjoy (and which frankly, remind her of her own dehumanization as a woman in the marriage mart). The show pushes the audience to think eloise as spoiled and foolish because she "hasn't lived life yet" and "doesn't know what she wants", without recognizing that she is the same age as her peers who are all highlighted and appreciated for wanting and achieving a traditional lifestyle in their respective seasons. Instead of showing that a woman should have the chance to live life on her own terms regardless of anything else, Bridgerton chooses to show that a happy ending is conditional on how obedient/abiding a woman is to societal norms, and in the process it paints eloise as a single shrew who is needlessly contrarian, rather than as a woman who deserves sympathy for being forced at every turn into a fate she finds terrifying and stifling
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.
However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.
That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.
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Jess ruined Eloise and you cannot change my mind. S4 Eloise was written with the very poorly-thought, very banal, loose trope of "she's hasn't found the right man yet/she has the wrong idea of marriage" because that's all they can give her. Just rewatch the first couple of seasons and you'll get it. Not every woman is about finding peace and love regardless of the era they are born in, Eloise is a clear example of that: she's not just scared of childbirth or of losing herself to marriage, she wants (wanted) MORE. She wanted to achieve something beyond a lord's name and yet that's all she will get in this terribly-written show that gave us queer (Franchaela) but drew the line at different classes (Theloise). There is a stark contrast between the fiery, rebellious Eloise we met in the first couple of seasons and the trajectory they seem to be forcing her onto now: early Eloise wasn't rejecting the marriage mart simply because the men were boring or because she was afraid of childbirth, she was rejecting the system itself. Now, reducing her whole radical, systemic critique of society into a simple case of "waiting for a guy who allows her to read or kisses the floor she walks on" undermines the very foundation of her character (let's remember her scene with Violet in S2). There is a sort of fundamental tension with Eloise’s character on the show due to her being a feminist radical trapped inside a traditional romance franchise: the writers built an Eloise who demands a different kind of ending but ended up steering her toward the altar in the most boring of ways (could've done diff partner, setting, meeting). They built her on false promises, that's the tragedy of it. Philip is a very boring end for her and does not fit Eloise for a loong number of reasons. Even if he does give her everything she's ever dreamed of, it still comes packaged within the exact patriarchal institution she fiercely critiqued. They can try to modernize him for the screen to make him more intellectual/accommodating, it doesn't change that settling into quiet, rural domesticity feels like a massive regression for a woman who wanted to change the world and make a name for herself outside of a man's shadow.
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