FAFO in slow motion.
I’m convinced that the reason I’m still booking a table for one at the age of 63 instead of having settled with a significant other is because, like so many women of my generation, feminism has ruined my love life. Instead of empowering us, those ideals of the second-wave feminists made us believe marriage and domesticity were to be avoided like the plague and that men were competition rather than partners.
Not quite. You LET feminism ruin your love life. No one forced you to go along with it.
She reaches out and touches the reason, but it flies away from her fingertips like a wet sphere on a string that's just out of reach.