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In panel 3, つまりこの女のこの女によるこの女のせいってコトよ

There are just too many "kono onna's" for me to parse it. I get the gist of it, but I'm interested in understanding it fully.
 
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In panel 3, つまりこの女のこの女によるこの女のせいってコトよ

There are just too many "kono onna's" for me to parse it. I get the gist of it, but I'm interested in understanding it fully.
I would see the phrase this way:
Aの
Bによる
Cのせい。 
A,B, and C are all the reasons to be blamed. It's all her fault.

Similar Sentence Structure:
(A)台風の(B)豪雨による(C)土砂崩れのせいで、道路は閉鎖になった。
The road was shut down due to a (C) mudslide caused by the (B) heavy rain brought by a (A) typhoon.
 
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Thank you mikkih, I understand your example perfectly. Basically, it was the fault of C caused by A's B. But when A, B, and C are all the same word (kono onna/she), we can't really translate it like this, right? So am I right to believe that this was phrased the way it was for the purposes of intensification. I.e., instead of saying "it's her fault", it's like saying "it's all her fault, hers and hers alone"?
 

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Thank you mikkih, I understand your example perfectly. Basically, it was the fault of C caused by A's B. But when A, B, and C are all the same word (kono onna/she), we can't really translate it like this, right? So am I right to believe that this was phrased the way it was for the purposes of intensification. I.e., instead of saying "it's her fault", it's like saying "it's all her fault, hers and hers alone"?
I think your "it's all her fault, hers and hers alone" is a very good translation.
You could ... kick it up a notch even more if you want/can.

Intensification + humor

The meaning is totally different, but I wonder if you could come up with something catchy like "Of the people, by the people, for the people" ?
 
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Interesting idea NNescio :)
 
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