Potter argues that: Women are neither victims of deceitful men nor overdefensive virgins, but individuals who can choose to 'bestow' their favours on a man who will 'enjoy' them.
Tiffany Potter, another feminist critic, sees gender within the play in a different light; Merital's actions and words show a moderate approach to females, and "Women are neither victims of deceitful men nor overdefensive virgins, but individuals who can choose to 'bestow' their favours on a man who will 'enjoy' them".
Asking Mr Haynes if he was a "dishonest and deceitful man", Mr Wolkind said: "What is it about the website that you are moaning about?
It may whip-pan round, nervously to confront whatever deceitful man is standing in Rosetta's way, but always swings compulsively back to Rosetta's face like a compass needle.
We accept the misogynist construction because, at some level, we have absorbed the sexist standard that women are more deceitful than men by their nature.
On and on he went, sounding either foolish or deceitful: a man marooned in the 1930s, full of self-righteousness and howling contradictions.
A federal judge tossed out the conviction of a Brooklyn man who has spent 23 years in prison for the murder of a local drug dealer, ruling that the trial prosecutor was "overzealous and deceitful," the man's lawyers were "indolent and ill prepared," and the decisions of the original trial judge were "incomprehensible".
If there is a deceitful heart in men, then the hearts of women are more so".
This selfish, deceitful, improbably charismatic man -- one woman called him "a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man" -- convinced the actress that he and she were the sun and moon of Italian culture.
This is perhaps the most deceitful thing a man can lie about on his dating profile, but it does happen.
So simultaneously you are a sinner – 'The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked' – but on the other hand: 'Seek and you shall find.' You're constantly treading this line".
