I remember well the double standard
where ownership was exclusively male
and was built on men being assumed
to have more experience than women,
where experience meant the right
to grab initiative by the groin,
and squeeze it enough to make it 'pop',
where opportunity thrust itself at men, unbidden.
.
Whereas for the young women
the preparation was for marriage,
which was to be their whole life,
consisted of a naivety,
cultivated by family-
such that they were meant
to misunderstand what to expect
when required to with-stand
stress, and becoming property.
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