I've been assigned to read the "The Story of an Hour" multiple times throughout my educational career. For those who don't know, it's a 1894 short story about a woman who - after being informed that her husband had died - rejoices in the freedom that she believes his death will bring her. That's right, the woman is overjoyed that her husband - who has never abused her, and has only treated her with love, as the story describes - had died. When she later discovers that her husband is in fact alive, she dies of a heart attack, due to the disappointment. I've missed some nuances but that's the gist of it.

Here's the story: http://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/

These are the types of stories that are being assigned in schools. Worse yet, is the fact that they're being presented in a positive light by the teachers - as feminist narratives of female liberation blah blah blah. The moral depravity of the woman rejoicing in her husband'd death is completely lost on them.

I was honestly disgusted reading "The Story of an Hour", and it's incredibly disheartening that such stories are peddled as reading material for lots of impressionable young men and women. It's poison to the mind, but whenever I try to point it out to normies, I'm either told that I misunderstood the story or that it's not as big of a deal as I make it out to be. Please, if the genders were swapped: if it were the husband rejoicing in her wife's death, I doubt the story would ever see the light of day.