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In reply to the discussion: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Empowering or exploitive to women? [View all]truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...about her own sexuality...she clearly can't handle relationships, and sex appears to be purely for the physical release rather than any real sort of emotional need...
She isn't a feminist in the "I'm not shaving my pits or my legs/burn my bra/all men are pigs" sense for sure, but rather in the sense that even though people have used her, or discounted her because of her gender she is still held in high regard by the intelligent men in her world that don't care about her physical appearance...Lisbeth herself clearly doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks of her, male or female, but she is emotionally damaged everytime she feels rejected...I think her attitude and her unwillingness to compromise makes her a strong female person, whether that makes her a 'feminist' or not I am not qualified to judge...