Yelena was about to rebut that this was surely not the case when the rude remarks were shot their way. Or more specifically, aimed at her companion, along with a hard purposeful bump. Yelena gritted her teeth. The unnecessary rudeness irked her.
She whipped around to glare after the man who passed. "He wasn't doing anything to you!" She didn't care for judgment based on prejudice of any kind.
While Yelena knew that the effectiveness of Dreykov's Red Room was predominantly based on the unexpected deadliness of young woman, that being precisely why it was so successful, she also knew what the General thought of his army of Widows. She knew because they were female, they were thought of as trash and considered disposable just as easily. And that was the 'modern' world.