Immutability has long held a privileged place in U.S. sex equality law, and it has produced a peculiar way of defending women: insisting that they “cannot help being women.”

And if human civilization cannot stand after overriding some of its most barbaric, brutal, and self-righteous conceptions, I, nor my peers, need to apologize for it.

虽然我也很想说，历史于我们只是擦肩而过，但纵览这三年前后的种种，我不得不承认，它已经被我揉进生命体验的一部分，以至于每每提起我的家乡，彼时浸入身体发肤的情绪都齐齐涌现，用温柔而坚定的方式告诉我，往事并不如烟。