i think the reason that i get so mad about jane eyre discourse (aside from the fact that this story is very dear to my heart and i don’t like seeing people shit on it) is that it just continues to confirm to me the utter lack of tolerance for any woman making subversive art, especially if it’s not subversive in a way covertly sanctioned by societal conventions. like everyone knows that female artists are morally policed much more closely than their male counterparts, but i really do think that any female artist, especially these days, who isn’t making completely palatable, easy to swallow art will be eviscerated as either a bad person or someone who’s ~naive~ and ~just didn’t know what she was doing bc she’s such a silly woman~ unless she has the “excuse” of some sort of trauma/other vector of oppression, etc.