I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar. He smiled. "They're at home, waiting. " "For what?" His eyes glittered. "That, I cannot say.
It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges. . . . In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.