connected to the larger man-woman equation here. The way a classmate at a school reunion had once smirked, “Gosh you’re 31 and still unmarried!” When I retorted, “Big deal! You’re single too,” he bragged, “Well, I am a man.” That’s the standard answer of men because they can get away with anything in a country where daughters are largely seen as a liability and must be wedded by a certain age.
