"I'd want my mom to live the kind of life she wanted," Zack said in response to the description of why men around here behaved the way they did. "Back home, at least where I grew up, women worked, too. It was kind of stupid for them not to. I mean, we didn't really have much, so everyone needed to pitch in. Guess that's more a country town thing than anything to do with my planet, but I don't see why cities should be any different."
Zack knew that women weren't completely equal with men in the workplace back home, but they definitely had a better lot than what Jaime was describing to him. "I'd like to see a guy from around here try to tell Scarlet she's a joke. She's one of the board executives of the company I used to work for, and she's scary. Not the good kind, either. She'd probably have the businessmen from around here crying in a corner after five minutes alone with her."