[Filtered to women/girls only]I'd like to ask about something. I've arrived here from 1940, and my family and immediate community are very traditionalist for the time. Old-fashioned, you might say. When I was growing up, I was very often told that I couldn't do things because I was a girl. As I got older, I didn't let it stop me from following my ambitions, but I also got rather good at persuading and placating and otherwise winning round the men who told me I shouldn't. Men may be more suited to certain pursuits, but that doesn't mean women aren't capable of them at all. One has to be clever about it, that's all.
I don't see those attitudes here in Preya, for the most part. Certainly not on the telephone network. What I do see, however, is a level of crudity and disrespect that really does frighten me. I'm not so naive as to believe none of the men back home thought that way, but they at least had the decency not to share their thoughts with all and sundry. Aren't you terribly worried by it? And why do you think they do it, if they don't think that they are superior to women?
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