Response to Jack

Jack Treseler, I am a little confused on your comment you mentioned twice that said the author sounded liked "an ignorant feminist on repeat." I mean, I guess I could sorta see how you'd think shes a feminist because she portrays the boyfriend as a huge jerk. And, she doesn't give them names, which is an authors way of stating that the story is common and the characters actions are universal. However, if she were a crazy "feminist on repeat" wouldn't she give the woman more dominating characteristics? Wouldn't she end the story with the girlfriend dumping the jerk and finding true love elsewhere? In the many feminist books I've read in the past, the woman or the women always stand strong in the end because they bind together and form an alliance against the males. In this story, the other woman (her friend) hardly helps the girlfriend; she sees her friend falling and doesn't REALLY try to stop her from getting totally hurt. Also, Janie Coyote is some woman who probably knows just as well as the main character does that the boyfriend is a cheating tramp, but that doesn't stop her either. What kind of feminist author portrays women as insignificant and needy? On top of that, what kind of feminist author casts women as characters who instead of binding together, stomp on each others' feelings and integrity solely to get the guy? So Jack Treseler, my question to you is this: what do you mean when you say Pam Houston is ignorant? What is it exactly that she is unaware of? That this story is so not a feminist story? or do you still think it is?