Man FDS is so powerful

I was thinking about how so many incredibly successful or at least powerful women (e.g. Joan Baez, Karen Carpenter, Ghislaine Maxwell, to an extent Hillary Clinton etc.) had their pick-me tendencies be their downfall, despite the fact that they were literally so powerful even independent of men. Patriarchy really doesn't discriminate when it comes to encouraging women to be desperate for male validation and at no point in my life have I ever come across a resource that has us recognize and question these tendencies as rigorously as FDS.

Joan Baez is an *angel*. Her music is astoundingly beautiful and she's single handedly responsible for Bob Dylan's musical career. He played with her at concerts because she was in love with him and while she was wildly popular at the time he wasn't (seriously, fuck that hillbilly twang). Then after he became popular he publicly humiliated her, slow faded her, and left her reeling for like 10 years about whether he really loved her or not. He married some random woman the same year he dumped her. He basically complained that she was too involved in political activism and he just wanted to ~~*play music*~~ (newsflash buddy: 1960s folk needed the political backdrop to imbue it with the significance it had and even with her commitments to politics she was still a better musician than you). I just can't fathom how such a beautiful, talented, politically active and deep woman got publicly used and demeaned by a guy who looks and sounds like a sketchy homeless person. She even wrote an astoundingly beautiful song about it, which was wasted on such a scrotey muse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8&ab_channel=DaveBing). There's this line that goes "my poetry was lousy you said" and it drives me up the wall every time. He was so fucking ugly compared to her too. Every time I listen to her I'm simultaneously awed at how talented she is and at how far she had fallen because of that loser scrote. It makes me feel better about my own shady pick-me past, since if even she was a victim of patriarchy I can't have been that much of a gullible dope myself.