"...Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy..."
IOW, Karens.
Correct. And Winston’s assessments were, and remain, spot-on. Read 1984 in high school, and this observation of his impressed me at the time. I’d been raised to believe that women were the moral superiors of men, and that they were inherently more trustworthy. I was misled, to say the least.
Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
From the movie AS GOOD AS IT GETS.