This is what I love so much about Greg: he's not just not dominating, he loathes sexism as much as I do.
I wanted to be a fighter pilot and even wrote to the air force about it (but was disappointed by the physical requirements and the assumption that I was male). My grandfather offered to pay for flying lessons when I was 15 but my parents refused. Then I went into science and got a physics degree. Ah, those optimistic days when I thought all things might be possible if I tried.
I know things are better than they were in my parents' youth--back then a woman couldn't even get a loan or buy a house without a husband to sign contracts) but there's still a hell of a lot of sexism that others don't see or just ignore.
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I wanted to be a fighter pilot and even wrote to the air force about it (but was disappointed by the physical requirements and the assumption that I was male). My grandfather offered to pay for flying lessons when I was 15 but my parents refused. Then I went into science and got a physics degree. Ah, those optimistic days when I thought all things might be possible if I tried.
I know things are better than they were in my parents' youth--back then a woman couldn't even get a loan or buy a house without a husband to sign contracts) but there's still a hell of a lot of sexism that others don't see or just ignore.