08.30.07
Sold: Second Post (Women’s Lives)
Women’s lives are so difficult in the town where this story is set so far! They seem to do the lion’s share of the work and the worrying. The things the heroine is told about what to do when she is married and her period and such are pretty disturbing. Some of them I can see the reasoning behind but others seem solely designed to shame and subjugate women. As if their lives weren’t difficult enough, they’re told they kill crops just by looking at them while menstruating and are forced to eat the scraps of their husbands’ dinners and drink from the water with which they’ve washed their husband’s (probably gross and dusty) feet. It’s pretty awful, if you ask me. And the girls get locked in goat sheds for a week when they first get their period! How stupid is that?