the author explains that in this passage late in the article: "Even if the writer never explicitly says it, we know the implications of being a low-maintenance free spirit. She is white and able-bodied. She won’t ask anything of the man around her. She’s willing to expand his mind and never need emotional support in return".
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.