Professor Marston & the Wonder Women Page #2

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I wanna learn.

I admire you, I...

...read your paper on the correlation

of color and emotional states.

You read my paper?

It's criminal

that they will not give you a degree.

You know,

you don't need to feed me a line.

I'm not. God, what is wrong with you?

She's neurotic, also compulsive.

I'd say that's accurate.

Hmm.

Would it be possible

to get some whiskey with this?

It's illegal.

Come on.

Where?

How are you going to learn anything at all

about life if you refuse to live it?

Oh, no, darling,

I have to disagree with you.

- Oh, surprise, surprise.

- No, Freud is full of sh*t.

- No. What would I want with a penis?

- Heh.

Seriously, it would be exhausting

to have one organ...

...constantly directing the course

of your life. Olive, do you want a penis?

- No.

- Do you think that you have penis envy?

I don't understand

what that means, sorry.

Will you stop apologizing?

Do you know how many times

a minute you apologize?

Sorry.

Elizabeth, peach, penis envy is figurative.

It means a woman experiences

an envy of the male position in the world.

His dominance. His ability to penetrate

not just the woman, but...

- ...life.

- Oh, penetrate life?

- Yes.

- Well, that's very interesting.

You should've read the book.

- You do not think I...

- Then perhaps I do have it.

I do envy men's position in life,

their physical strength, their entitlement.

My aunt said, "A woman must not be told

how to use her freedom...

...she must find out for herself."

Your aunt, my dear,

is quoting Margaret Sanger.

My aunt is Margaret Sanger.

- The Margaret Sanger?

- I don't know her very well.

My mother and her...

There are sore feelings, I think.

Are you joking?

Your mother is Ethel Byrne?

We were very active

in the fight for women's suffrage.

When she did her hunger strike for birth

control, we rallied in her support.

I didn't grow up with my mother.

She, uh, left and I was put

in a convent school.

- What, she abandoned you?

- My father was a drunk...

...and wouldn't divorce her,

and she had to earn a living...

...and she had the movement to think of.

So, what you're saying is,

you are descended...

...from two of the most famous

radical feminists in the world...

...and yet you were raised by nuns?

- Yes.

- I thought you were just a...

What?

I don't know, not that.

So will you stay?

- Hmm.

- Will you join us?

- Yes.

- Yes! Wonderful.

Dominance, inducement, submission...

...and compliance.

All human relationships break down

into the interplay...

...between these categories of emotion.

A person is most happy when they are

submissive to a loving authority.

It is essential that a person submits

to an authority willingly...

...that it is their idea.

We get into trouble when people feel

forced to do something...

...they don't want to do,

and that is merely compliance.

People who comply instead of submit...

...are unhappy and repressed...

...and this can lead to resentment.

Taken to its extremes...

...it can lead to crime, war, fascism.

How do you avoid compliance?

It seems like...

- ...that is built into most situations.

- Inducement.

Inducement is the act of seducing

somebody to your way of thinking...

...dominating them so completely...

...that what you want

is what they want...

...and they love giving it to you...

...and that, ladies, is the key to life,

to love, to happiness...

...to peace.

Women are better

at inducement than men.

Are you all right, Dr. Marston?

Yes, I'm fine, thank you.

And how did you develop

this DISC theory?

Well, I started to observe student life.

Mating rituals and the like.

We gather here together

Can't believe I let you talk me into this.

It's research.

You're not allowed to be here.

I could get kicked out of the house.

They're dressed as babies. Ha-ha.

- We're gonna be fine.

- If you're all supposed to be babies...

...then do you also have

to wear the diapers?

- Please don't.

- Should we stay here or go over there?

Please, please stay here. Please.

- Just stay here.

- Okay. We'll stay here. We'll stay.

I for you

And you for me

- We are here for one another

- Shh.

And together we can fly

We stand by one another

At Alpha Omicron Pi

Welcome, pledges...

- ...to the AO Pi Annual Baby Party.

- Pfft.

Pledges, you will now pair off

with your assigned big sisters.

Pledge Master Olive.

It's okay.

Honestly, I don't get all this.

- It's just for fun.

- Are you back-talking...

- ...Pledge Sara?

- No.

You aren't to speak

unless you are spoken to.

- I realize that. I just...

- Pledge Master Olive...

...discipline your charge.

Pledge Sara, on your knees.

Come on.

Harder.

She's a baby

and needs to be punished.

Twenty.

Stop.

That's enough.

Thank you, Pledge Master Olive.

- I don't wanna talk about it.

- Well, how'd it make you feel?

She doesn't wanna

talk about it, Bill. Why harp on it?

- Because she is blocked. Can't you see?

- Fine.

How did it make you feel?

- I'm the one asking the questions.

- Oh, why should that be?

Go ahead, ask him questions.

How did it make you feel?

How did what make me feel?

Watching me spank that girl.

Excited...

...repulsed...

...nervous...

- ...aroused.

- Huh.

But my experience

as a spectator is meaningless.

You actually participated. It is

your experience that is worth cataloging.

How did it make you feel?

- Terrible.

- What else?

Ashamed.

- What else?

- Nothing, nothing else.

She won't tell you the truth.

Look at her. She's practically shaking.

Why the hell not? This is the substance

of what we are dealing with.

Because you wanting to know

is perverse, Bill.

If you cannot actually have sex with her,

you'll force her to admit what?

That she experiences desire,

that she was aroused? Oh!

Yes, exactly.

Don't talk about me

as if I were some test subject. I'm here.

Then be here.

You are not still in a convent.

Stop defending her

like she's some wilting violet.

I happen to think there might be value

to keeping one's thoughts to oneself.

Bill...

...when she lies, her...

Her voice shakes.

Wait, come here.

Her hand sweats.

Galvanometer skin tests

were too inconsistent.

Bill, her rhythmic breathing increases.

- Benussi already exhausted that avenue.

- Her heart beats faster.

- Her systolic blood pressure would rise.

- Her systolic blood pressure.

- You could measure that.

- Oh, you could f***ing measure that.

- You could measure that. Oh, my God.

- Ha-ha-ha.

- Think of it sooner...

- Oh, my God. We did it!

The link to the lie-detector

test was there the whole time.

It doesn't matter what you say

or what you think.

Your body will always betray you.

Your heart pumps a record of the truth.

So how did the two of you meet?

Well, I'm in SAE,

and Olive is in Alpha O, so...

And all the fellows had

their eyes on her, but I quizzed Mary.

Mary's the AO social chair.

And she told me

that Olive loved begonias...

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