“Please, Baru.” He unclenches his hands, smooths out the tangle he’s made. “It’s true that the women are … not always given a chance to behave correctly. But some of that is exaggeration and prejudice. Some of it is fetishization of the foreign. When we talk about Oriati women as intrinsically erotic, somehow, we place demands on them. We contribute to their degradation.” “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be uncouth.” She lowers her chin contritely. “I was just trying to see things from your perspective. To imagine how it was, when you were there.”
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