| Predictability
Written by Tom P2
(3/24/2009 7:45 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, That's just what I mean, unfortunately, penned by Line
As an alternative to the "It's all Isabella's responsibility, and any man she approaches that way is merely a force of nature" view, how about this? Henry knows Frederick's past behaviour so well that he finds him highly predictable. Then the speech relies on knowledge of a specific person, and is further from the dodgy generalisation that anything bad that happens to a woman is her own fault.
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