"Because it's usually a competition for women. If they aren't aggressive there might not be a chance at all. You're attractive, smart, a gunslinger, if a woman wakes up admitting that she doesn't feel very pretty, her face looks too fat and nothing looks good on her then, well, someone else will come and take it. You have to go in for it." The hand that held the cup waved forward a little as if to say now having pointed that out, "At the very least this is what I hear from the more experienced. Men get what they want by being strong or attractive or smooth. Women get what they want by being harder than they appear. S'how it is."
She said it very simply, without upset or self-deprecation. None of that really applied to her but it was what she'd managed to see in other women in both worlds. Even Nariko, with all of her physical beauty, exhibited the same mannerisms and it had always been out of a deeply rooted fear that a lot of women appeared to share. It was one detail Kaine had been grateful to sidestep.
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Date: 2015-02-22 10:54 pm (UTC)She said it very simply, without upset or self-deprecation. None of that really applied to her but it was what she'd managed to see in other women in both worlds. Even Nariko, with all of her physical beauty, exhibited the same mannerisms and it had always been out of a deeply rooted fear that a lot of women appeared to share. It was one detail Kaine had been grateful to sidestep.