Slasher

Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.

you

uh oh

What is that?

this ?

dont!

oh, I thought you didn’t know what it was

where did you get it

I was actually hoping that you DIDN’T know

give it to me

because this? this is a chronicle of female degradation, one hundred and five pages in which a virginal young woman named “sloan” is terrorized

mother!

sexually objectified

stop!

tortured and raped after being bathed in another woman’s blood!

gross

No Hildy, "gross’ is a booger, gross is vomit or feces. This is a contagion in which the most reprehensible acts are packaged as entertainment- not just entertainment, but as titillation, so that men like marc hunter will continue to think that its hot to see women raped and killed. I am going to rack him down and cram every single page down his throat, page after page until his dangly little uvula is castrated by a thousand paper cuts and he chokes on his own blood! Or maybe I’ll just burn it.

I won’t let you

where are the matches?

I am doing this movie!

Over my dead body!

I can arrange that!

I will lock you in the closet before I let that happen! I will force feed you the collected works of Betty Freidan! I will not allow you to be tortured and humiliated

I want to be tortured ok?

what did you just say?

I want to be tied up, and look scared and scream my head off, and you know why? because its a movie!

I am not hearing this

I am in a movie! I am the STAR. And I didn’t just get the part, I negotiated, I demanded more money and I got it. You’re supposed to be proud of me

I’m supposed to be proud you want to be degraded?

It’s not real mother! I’m in control

You’re actually retarded, aren’t you?

You know what? I’m outta here

I always knew you weren’t smart.But I didn’t think you were actually stupid. Have you learned nothing? watching me bang my head on the glass ceiling day after day

You haven’t worked in years

I have chronic fatigue

You want to stop me from making this movie? Here’s your change: come up here and stop me

Don’t mock me

I dare you. Walk up these stairs and admit that there’s nothing wrong with you and Maybe I won’t do the movie

sheena, what are you doing?

The choice is yours, mom

You know she can’t go up stairs

oh yes she can, she just doesn’t want to

that’s not true

I want you to admit that you’re a lazy, bitter drug addict who would rather rail about injustice than get a job

you’re beyond cruel

what’s cruel is pretending you’re too tired to even walk across a room, and forcing your daughter to support you so you can spend all your time screaming that you’ve been discriminated against

I have been discriminated against

The city gave marshall Davis that cleaning contract because you couldn’t do the job

I did the job

You took a whole day to clean one floor

Hello! I’m disabled. of course its going to take me longer

You’re such a victim! God! You talk about how people are so afraid of strong, powerful women “like you”, but no one is afraid of you and you know why? Because you don’t DO ANYTHING. Ever since dad left, you’ve done NOTHING. Well, I’m actually doing something now, and you can’t stop me

Oh, so this is your big statement, well I’ve got a question for you. Who controls the money huh, i’ll give you a hint, its not you, you and the rest of your generation you’re all too busy getting boob jobs and counting carbs to notice that women are still royally screwed, they pat you on the head tell you discrimination is over, who needs equal rights when you’ve got the WNBA? They trot out condolezza arice once a month like shes the equality bong so you’re all too stoned to notice that we still only make 76 cents on the dollar

get out of my way

I’m not going to let you, OW

stop it

You’re not taking my car

It’s MY car mom, I bought it after you totaled the last one ramming into marshall davis’s expedition

where are you going?

If you do this movie, I am disowning you, Sheena, I’ll never speak to you again

mom!

Fine

sheena

she’s all yours

you can’t leave, what am I supposed to do

You’re the genius, figure it out

they turned my own daughter against me

no, you did that all on your own

You know, you’re right! here’s my conclusion. you’re a lying sack of shit. You see that? I upgraded you, from a piece to a sack

Wait wait wait

What?

is this really the way you want this to be done? You’re more poised than this

ha? You should talk

Will you let me handle this? I’m trying to help the girl

girl?

Oh you know what I mean

Ab? What’s going on?

Take it from me, blowing up gets you nowhere. You want to end up alone? That’s the ticket, try it again

If you ask me, Abigail here has every right to be upset

I never said she doesn’t have the right to be upset. I just said that there are ways to handle these sorts of situations- in order to work in her favor

I really think you should mind your own business/ hick,

this IS my business

I appreciate both of you, but if you would just let me

just because you’re the First lady/ doesn’t mean you’re automatically right about everything!

There’s no reason to be so harsh with me

there’s no reason to treat me like a child!

Well you’re certainly acting rather childish!

OH, AM I

HEY

Excuse me, with all due respect, I think' I’ve got it

Well, you heard the woman