How she or her successors will eventually handle it, I do know. That is, they will re-adopt the same rules. Women will be treated differently. The males will stand up. In ugly ways the necessity of that distinction is already reasserting itself.
Women are socially, and too often physically, abused.
That's because males have only two options. One is to respect females and treat them differently, meaning stand when they enter the room. The other is to treat them as we treat one another which is, quite frequently, disrespectfully. And this disrespect for women is what we now see happening. This article first appeared on November 6, 2000.