What's going to be the death of me? Static electricity.

Why does a house cat, when it is left outside, invariably come back to its master? Cats do not think of us as a part of their "pack" -- they are, allegedly, "not social animals." Even when they do stay with us their independence, to say nothing of the real neuroses some domesticated animals (caged birds...) display, assures us that it is only out of a lack of alternatives. That is precisely it. A cat who escapes comes back when it realizes that it prefers regular meals, albeit regular meals in servitude. It does not want the freedom to starve, and the ones who do -- well, they drop off our radar. And thusly do we construct the universality of our sovereignty.

Thusly do women remain oppressed. There are other options, of course -- last time I checked, women did have the option to get paid for their jobs. And last time I checked women get paid on average half what men do for comparable work. We will continue to accept the dinner offers of traditional gentlemen so long as that is the most certain way to ensure a regular meal. Men don't have the option of such dependence at all, but women -- well, it's unfortunate, but you know how things are. These days, nobody much looks out for the strays.