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Author’s Note: Saltburn was directed by Emerald Fennell (of Promising Young Woman fame). This was meant to be an entire essay, but I couldn’t decide on how to illustrate every point, so I decided to provide you with my observations instead. There will be SPOILERS, so do be warned. Opening shot: A badge of arms on a silver cigarette case. There is a hand coming out of a crown with an arrow through it.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

But wait!…Hold on….she rises again. Oh this is exciting! Can she sustain this new success? Do we even want her to? Or is it more fun to hope she fails? UGH it’s so hard! Never mind what she wants  - what do we want? I just finished reading Jessica Bennett’s excellent article in Elle on Sophia Amoruso, former CEO and leader of the Girlboss world movement - who hates that title.

I think Eliza is pulling her punches on this subject a little. The 'all Terfs are Nazi's' attempted slur is one that should attract deeper analysis. It is generally applied to anyone who isn't a TRA. We perhaps shouldn't be surprised by it, President Vladimir Putin has employed the 'Nazi' slur against The Ukraine, proclaiming it to be a Nazi state, though President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy being born of Jewish parents does rather pose a problem with that line.