Eve Syndrome

Eve Syndrome is simply what the church calls "original sin" and that it was thunk up by Eve [ie not Adam], and moreso that there was no SENSE in it as there was plenty of fruit on other trees, and even moreso [moresoest?] that it would DESTROY the whole "security/enjoyment" of what they HAD.

-- all of this for an illusion of the NEED of POWER, when in fact woman has always had the power over men, and smart women simply KNOW that and live their "Life of Riley" along with all their fantasies [and REALS], quite happy to let their Bill THINK he is control.

we see in movie that Alice says she was prepared to give up Bill, her life of luxury, AND her child for ONE day of her desire. In other words she was totally conscious of the fact the implementation of her desire [or rather the discovery of such] would end up in excrement for ALL.

so yes that is what Laura Miller concludes when looking back in 1999 over the RESULTS of The Female Eunuch

“The Female Eunuch” is a fitful, passionate, scattered text, not cohesive enough to qualify as a manifesto. It’s all over the place, impulsive and fatally naive — which is to say it is the quintessential product of its time."

Hence she goes on to describe how Greer herself did a 180 degree flip [even became a self confessed pedophile after that time as she explained when talking about her new book The Boy], but the irony is that millions of women around the world say they were "saved" by what they THOUGHT they changed in their lives after reading The Female Eunuch back in 1970, when the truth in most cases was the sadder but wiser icon that Greer was to become herself once she found she WANTED a child but had ruined her sacred body parts from all her abortions.

so the real irony is Stanley parodies that by having Alice "do a Catherine" but using the RULES from Greer. The final resolution is that somehow, just like Catherine, a relationship in which TRUST has been broken can somehow be restored by "fucking their way out", but those of us [like Jules] who have "been there, done that, didn't even get the T-shirt" KNOW can only end in disaster, as per the ending for Catherine and Jim, ie murder/suicide in legal terms but in Eve terms simply the Queen Bee "rationalizing her hive".