Talking Mirror
Anuradha, notice the word you just used, choosing. A cage someone is happy in and calls chosen is usually the one nobody had to lock, because the walls were built into her before she knew there was an outside. Convenient in-laws, family pressure to leave a job after marriage, unpaid care work that never shows up as a real alternative, that's not a competing option freely weighed against a career. Calling that a wrong choice quietly hands all the…
