Feminists were dismissed as unattractive, shrill harridans or ridiculed as politically correct scolds.
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Give me the harridans, the dolts, the selfish, and the jerks—especially the jerks.
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Virtue signaling, as though the rest of us barren harridans deserve to burn alive in our cars.
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And contrary to the image of women as vindictive harridans out for blood, there are examples of women who have responded with gratitude, even forgiveness, to men's apologies.
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His angry white male base may see in him a hero standing up to the harpies and harridans whom they resent as nagging or emasculating or see as threatening to take their jobs.
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They may be unjust to the harridans, simps and playthings he stocks them with but they tell a real story of male collapse that was relevant to the culture at the time they were first produced, and might still hold up better than the later, more "serious" works.
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Perhaps this is most apparent in Bachelorette, her razor-edged 2010 "gluttony" play, which later became a criminally underrated 2012 feature film, directed by Headland and starring Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, and Lizzy Caplan as a trio of drug-addled, selfish, body-dysmorphic, alcoholic, miserable millennial harridans, determined to sabotage their most earnest friend's wedding day.
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Phyllis Morris was born on 18 July 1894 in Walthamstow and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. From 1947 to 1952 she worked as an actress in Hollywood, "playing there, as in Britain, any number of grim-featured harridans". She died on 9 February 1982 at Denville Hall, Northwood.
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The son of a Hertfordshire builder, Taylor grew up in Bushey Heath. A paternal uncle was a newsreel cameraman and contact with him from the age of ten gave Taylor early experience of working with cameras and developing film stock. As a teenager, he studied architecture before deciding to pursue a career in film. While his father disapproved of the film industry, populated he thought by "harridans, whores and gypsies", it was his mother who consented to their son's altered career plans.
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There were theatrical antecedents in the family: Mount's grandfather had started the first minstrel show on the end of Great Yarmouth pier."Peggy Mount – Obituary", The Times, 14 November 2001 As a schoolgirl she enjoyed acting in the drama society of her local Wesleyan chapel and after she left school she performed with local amateur companies. She took lessons from a drama tutor, Phyllis Reader, at weekends."Obituary of Peggy Mount: Character actress who specialised in playing grotesque harridans and scowling battleaxes", The Daily Telegraph, 14 November 2001 Her first professional appearance was at Keighley, Yorkshire, in Hindle Wakes in 1944.
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Although Reynolds was unusual in his religious skepticism (one of the main characters in The Mysteries of London was a clergyman turned libertine) and political radicalism, his tales were intended for his mostly middle- and lower-class readers; they featured "hump-backed dwarves, harridans and grave-robbers [who] groped past against a background of workhouses, jails, execution yards, thieves' kitchens and cemeteries. His readers could depend on him to bring in the theme of maiden virtue rudely strumpeted as often as possible." Reynolds' Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf was a gothic novel which described how the title character became a werewolf after making a pact with the devil.Fisher, B. F.; "Wagner, the Wehr-Wulf", in: Frank N. Magill, ed.
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