Reflections on dreams and gender roles

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: (soft music) When I was a little girl, I used to dream. Big dreams. Like being the most powerful sorceress of all time. (laughs) But when I grew up, my secrets were made fun of. No one wanted to be like me. They said I was insane to even put on makeup or try hard at fighting. It sounds like everything I did was only for something more forbidden. (laughs) But you know, back then, just like now, women weren't allowed to do anything but run around and cook food so men could beat them. Yeah, that's not too different today. As a kid, I would try really hard to look like Jane Seymour, but it seemed to start all over again in class. (laughs) I'd have to sit through an entire day of grammar training with no girls in the room. (laughs) Kate Middlesex had to spend her time looking for George White, reading like a frog and pushing a swivel. Nancy Macewell was probably sitting in the best part of the house with the toilet. (laughs) Just like those scenes from the movies where the guy looks down on the other suits because they wear fancy clothes and make up. Well, see, we didn't have to wear those smelly looks and decide who got the man of the month. We knew right away who the boss and the enemy was. (laughs)