Hell, the bizarro-world treatment of sheltered pretty men and strong protective women isn't even the only way to go. Why aren't there more societies, for instance, that allow a woman to do something other than have a family? So many cultures in real life value sons more than daughters for reasons like that, so it would be easy to justify letting women have that choice.
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Date: 2010-06-18 07:26 pm (UTC)