Aunt Lin doesn't entirely understand American culture. When my uncle joked that I would be the "man of the house" while I stayed over, she took it literally.
Being superior is great. Given his superiority, a superior man wouldn't need any superior woman (if she existed), so he only accepts inferior women. So his is like a win-win position: either he feels no desire for a given woman, or she is a worthless piec
"it is hard to be a man," i said, "until one stands in a relation to a woman. and, i suppose, it is hard to be a woman until one stands in a relation to a man."
