The show and the fandom really want me to think that Eloise is being a ânot like other girlsâ because she doesnât like the idea of becoming a manâs property when she marries him - even if there is love, she belongs to him - and sheâs apparently a spoiled privileged child for thinking that that is wrong.
Even this season is acting like her disinterest in Hyacinthâs etiquette lessons is her being selfish. Eloise is older than Hyacinth. Eloise has already taken these lessons.
Eloise wants to learn science and philosophy and math and history and economics. This is like watching all your brothers go to college while you have to sit in on your sisterâs high school Home Ec class that youâve ALREADY TAKEN as punishment for not wanting to marry.
Eloise is constantly treated as though sheâs an immature self centered brat for not wanting to talk about dancing and hosting and fashion and marriage. The show and the fandom punishes her for feeling constrained by her life.
How is it that the show gives more sympathy to Anthony for the constraints of being the head of family, sympathy to Benedict for feeling like an outsider (which Eloise does too! Heâs just allowed to pursue alternate lifestyles and SHE IS NOT), sympathy for Colin for feeling purposeless (when Eloise ALSO feels purposeless because she doesnât WANT to just be a wife and baby machine), but little to no realistic sympathy to Eloise???
At this point the show is clearly taking a very anti feminist stance and making Eloise into more of an annoying child for chafing against social norms of societal misogyny that she CANNOT ESCAPE than any of her brothers for chafing against social norms and feeling kinda bad about it :///
