On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

by Elise Loehnen

We have been trained for goodness. Men, meanwhile, have been trained for power.

Our culture has little tolerance for or interest in women past their procreative prime, and certainly we have no reverence for them. While we have sanctified old men and propped them up as the ultimate authorities—the priests, lawmakers, judges—we have exiled their counterparts.