#found this deep in my drafts. cannot remember the post that broke the camel's back and inspired this

[hazellvsq]

after the war nico pulls frank aside to give him a shovel talk. frank nods in understanding and gives nico a copy of simone de beauvoir’s the second sex so that nico can understand how his antiquated views are harmful not just to his sister but to women as a class. nico realizes that his notions of masculine headship cause inordinate damage to society and repents of his womanhating ways