It's despicable how feminists have claimed Jane Austen and warped her work.

In Seattle a few years ago I was taken by a friend to see a play that was advertised as "Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice" in which the daughters were played by men who had pants on under skirts that had a split up the front, just to make sure nobody in the audience missed the fact that these bearded performers were not actually women. The mother uses noisemakers, including the kind of horns that clowns use, and i don't think a single line from the book. Later, I looked up the writer, who is a feminist quite proud of herself for her "adaptation." How it's feminist to dress men up as Jane Austen's young women characters is beyond me.

On a visit to the Seattle Art Museum, I heard a docent telling a group of girls that women in 19th century Paris were not allowed to go out and paint, or do anything, without a chaperone. I bet Jane Avril would have been surprised to hear that! But it's in complete conformity with how feminists want us to view not only the past, but the present -- women being always and only victims of men.