The Yellow Wallpaper: “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the

The Yellow Wallpaper: “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.”

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Join Penn and Scrapple as they parse a feminist staple, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Interestingly, the woman in the story has parallels to Britney Spears and her struggles under a conservatorship. At any rate, #freedbritney is out there loving life.

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