The issue I take with #5 is that Carrie Fisher’s “Marie” doesn’t ever say that line to one of her friends; she says that line to herself because she is the “other woman” and is coming to terms with the fact that those men won’t be ever leave their person. She’s knowingly getting with men knowing they’re in other relationships. Not a feminist move if women are supposed to be supportive of other women. The self-realization that they won’t ever leave their spouses/girlfriends is something she comes to on her own as she talks out her dilemma with her girlfriends (who all know already that he will never leave “her”). Her self-enlightenment is more feminist than the quote itself. Maybe that’s what you were implying.
The issue I take with #5 is that Carrie Fisher’s “Marie” doesn’t ever say that line to one of her friends; she says that line to herself because she is the “other woman” and is coming to terms with the fact that those men won’t be ever leave their person. She’s knowingly getting with men knowing they’re in other relationships. Not a feminist move if women are supposed to be supportive of other women. The self-realization that they won’t ever leave their spouses/girlfriends is something she comes to on her own as she talks out her dilemma with her girlfriends (who all know already that he will never leave “her”). Her self-enlightenment is more feminist than the quote itself. Maybe that’s what you were implying.