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My Girl Friend's Back

(Eric Shansby)

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Gene: Very, very good.

Gina: Thank you. Listen, I understand that you were angry, and because I adore you, I am self-laceratingly sorry you were angry. Your response was to instantly banish me from your life with no appeal, whereas my response was to want to set myself on fire. Self-immolation seemed the only reasonable choice.

Irrationally strong internalization of guilt remains an enormous character flaw in the otherwise highly evolved modern feminist. I would hope that the next generation of feminists would respond by wanting to set you on fire. But we are not there yet. We may never get there.

Gene: You adore me?

Gina: Yes.

Gene:

Gina: That is another flaw in the modern feminist.

Gene Weingarten's e-mail address is weingarten@washpost.com.

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