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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Well, I think that’s how it was - and in some places, it still is. At the same time, there was Great Grandma, up on the roof repairing the shingles. So I suspect that women were probably out and about, doing a lot more than Doug (or Bradbury as a boy) ever noticed.
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I'm willing to admit that I'm probably seeing this through a modern lens, but it still annoys me that when females do appear in the stories, for the most part they're old, they're silly, they're witches, they're victims, they're cruel.