[TML] Descendants

Anthony Jackson ajackson at iii.com
Thu Jul 17 15:43:38 MDT 2008


Grimmund wrote:

> That's not automatically misogynistic, or a judgment of the relative
> worth of sons and daughters as human beings.
> 
> What typically happens is that married daughters go off to live with
> their husband and his parents.

The idea of "the wife joins the husband's family and goes to live with 
the husband" is a judgment of relative worth -- it implies that the man 
leads, and the woman follows.


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