Patriarchy has many flavors. It is the root of religion, culture, and many of the Rules, spoken or unspoken in this world.

In some ways, being a woman here, it is like we live on a Prison Planet.

Things that happen to us, are done to us, men would be horrified to experience themselves. Listen to the way they describe the day-to-day awfulness of incarceration and gauge how much of it reflects a woman's actual, lived experience.

The biggest cross over from Indian Culture, well, that is truly everywhere. The desire and preference for boys. There is a lot of that in the world. There are many families with several older girl children where the parents are "trying for a boy."

Not evil, not terrible, but very very pointed.