Original artwork, not a still
The Quality of Mercy ‧ 1900
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage condemns sport as a source of insensitivity to suffering and judges women’s participation especially harshly. Those claims express its critical view, not established differences between women and men.
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