Hmmm...truthfully, if you don't know there's hardly a point in explaining it. But the implication is that women are only valuable as child-bearers...which in turn eliminates quite a few women, including older women, as having value.
Geez I can't believe I had to explain that!
Only if you read that way.
Hmmm...truthfully, if you don't know there's hardly a point in explaining it. But the implication is that women are only valuable as child-bearers...which in turn eliminates quite a few women, including older women, as having value.
Geez I can't believe I had to explain that!
I dont think that they were saying that all woman have value, but that their marital marketibility value erodes over time as their physical charms erode and childbearing ability fades, for although in our culture marital status is not totally corrolated with childrearing, it is significant.