Abby Wambach
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to tell someone they don't have a right to be a main character than just someone who's a main character.
Yeah, it's audacious.
It's audacious.
It's also super interesting what you just mentioned about Virginia Woolf and like the interior story, like the structural value applied to that versus other things.
And it's just so mirrored in every structural hurdle that we've had.
You know, where you have like, okay, the domestic sphere belongs to women and the public sphere belongs to men.
And that is the natural order of things.
And therefore, because we have made those assignments, the domestic sphere will be unpaid, unvalued and be seen as just inherently women inherently desire that.
And that gives us a reason to not compensate that work and to assign it to them.
They super want it, therefore it has no value.
Okay, outs here in the exterior world, in the public spaces are where we are going to give prestige and money.
and value, okay?
And then you look at even the things that happen in the domestic sphere.
Like, why is it you punch somebody in the face on the street, it's assault.
You punch somebody in the face in a home, suddenly there is
That is now a domestic situation.
It is treated differently than if it happened outside the home.
In the writing, even the value of saying, okay, this is an analysis of internal interior worlds changes.
is by definition, that's a cute self-help thing.
That is not something that is valuable to the world inherently and to people.