The Mad Woman Outside the Attic
The Mad Woman is no longer confined to the attic. She has a room of her own now. A house of her own. A job and rights (albeit on paper) and (some) say in her life. She is the empowered woman of today. Highly educated, highly career oriented. She was told there was nothing she couldn't be, nothing she couldn't do By parents, elders and teachers and everyone else. So she kept pursuing those goals prized by society. There's nothing she couldn't achieve if she her mind to it, They said. So she kept scoring goals after goals. Steadily believing that she was inching closer to the life that was promised. School, college, higher education, she won at everything. But overtime, she realized that there are no jobs that fit her bill. So she made a House of Cards with the job applications she made every year And watched them fall apart somewhere during the mid of each year Without fail. It's a routine yearly activity now. Finds ...