Bridgerton dismisses Mary Wollstonecraft because she does not "sufficiently value love".
Bridgerton is dead to me.
Bridgerton is now officially sexist, misogynist, anti feminist bullshit.
Dismissing one of the most significant proto feminist writers of the Regency Era because she does not "sufficiently value love" isn't even weak, feeble feminism anymore it is full on anti-feminist rhetoric.
Don't tell me Bridgerton isn't sexist propaganda, when one of the patriarchy's favourite talking points is that feminists are unlovable, and that women who protest against the patriarchy need the love of a good man to fix them.
I know this show is a romance and love is the endgame, but they didn't need to bloody well introduce feminism or Wollstonecraft into the show at all. They brought these things into the narrative, built up their importance for Eloise, simply to dismiss them and have Eloise outgrow them once she's ready for "love".
This show is the most sexist, repulsive, insidious trad wife propaganda on television, and the fact it sells itself as progressive just makes it all the more insidious.














