A Danish newspaper has published an essay by writer Heidi Laura, an indictment against the female sex which was commissioned by Lars von Trier in 2007 as part of the research for the film. It references the stories of Eve and Pandora, quotes poetry with misogynistic content and cites the thinkers Aristotle, John Chrysostom, John Knox, Arthur Schopenhauer,
Friedrich Nietzsche and Otto Weininger as well as the American feminist
Camille Paglia.
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