Many females know the taste of this poison. Those who have been around long enough to look back on the way things used to be are particularly familiar with it. WE still have a long row to hoe. The work is nowhere near completed.

I often marvel at my daughters and their friends. They are less tolerant of and less grateful for the imbalance created by generations of patriarchal dominance.

It has been a long grind, but I think we are making progress in limiting the amount of poison our girls drink. WE must put the lid back on the bottle. We must continue to speak out against it and teach our sons to recognize it for what it is (passive dominance). We have to continue recalibrating the scales long used in the mans' world and ensure we demonstrate to our daughters that they don't have to tolerate less. They don't deserve less, and they don't have to be grateful for less.