Ending is ridiculous

So, the supposedly God-fearing women end up being more evil than Eastwood's character? Is that supposed to be the moral of the story? WTF...

I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! [slurp!] I DRINK IT UP! - Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood

I don't think it's saying that women are dangerous. He was using them and pitting them against each other by playing with their hearts. He was a liar, and he was the enemy -- a "Yankee". It makes perfect sense that by the end of the film they would want to kill him. I think anyone would have, woman or man.

The only thing feminist about the film is the fact that its a majority female cast, and that they drive most of the action in the picture. I read in a bio about Clint years ago that he felt at the time that strong female roles were disappearing from films, and he said he missed such strong female characters, so he had them in his films. If you look at his films from this period (the '70s) some of them did have tough female characters in them---like PLAY MISTY FOR ME, THE GAUNTLET,and HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, for example. Good on him for that,lol.

Does this movie tries to tell us that if you flirt with many women you will end up in a coffin. Giving us a message about feminism and women power.
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I see people claiming this movie is misogynist, but considering how almost every character, male or female, was pretty flawed, I have a hard time seeing any anti-feminist message.

For me, the center of the movie is about power dynamics and this dynamic constantly shifts between the characters depending on the situation. McB uses his virility and charm to manipulate everyone in the house. Martha bosses the others around and is pretty domineering-- that she owns Hallie as a slave is no small thing. She essentially treats Edwina and the girls like underlings as well. McB even tries bonding with Hallie over their shared imprisonment by Martha and the Confederacy at large.
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Come on the guy had already lost one leg and didnt deserve to die. All he did was something natural seeing so many women (and all seem to be interested in him irrespective of age and race). To flirt out is one of the basic instincts of any man and when the women are inviting you. Who can resist a hot girl like Carol?
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I can't call McB's fate exactly unearned. He got pretty violent by the end, making sexually charged threats and waving a weapon around.

Now, do I think Martha solely killed him out of self-defense? No, not at all. There were many factors into it: jealousy, for one thing. But McB's threats probably helped push that decision over the top.

Honestly, this is a movie where almost no one comes off as fully sympathetic, let alone heroic-- the only characters I found fully sympathetic were Hallie and Amy. But that's what makes this movie fascinating-- there is so much going on with all these characters psychologically. Even McB wasn't totally motivated by self-preservation: he liked being the rooster in the hen-house and seemed to enjoy his manipulations for their own sake.