“What is holding me back,” Ellie shouted as she took a step toward him, “is an entire society built on the implied superiority of men! A society that refuses women any sense of agency or competence! What is holding me back,” she continued as she drove a firm, pointy finger into his sternum, “is a legal and professional system designed to systematically exclude women in order to force them into lives of domestic slavery! I can’t just walk away from whatever isn’t working for me. I don’t get to bounce into any job tacked up onto the postings board. I can’t just give up, secure in the knowledge
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