The part that stood out to me was when Tante Atie was talking about the role of women on page 151, she was explaining how each of the ten fingers on her hands represented something for women, “Mothering. Boiling. Loving. Baking. Nursing. Frying. Healing. Washing. Ironing. Scrubbing.” And that is how the way she’s brought up and probably many women. It is very oppressive because it makes women seem like objects only meant to serve men. It’s scary the obsession for women to be this perfect (almost caricature-like) housewife figures. The extent the mothers go through for their daughters to be perfect is very frightening too, like the testing to see if the hymen is not broken even though the mothers themselves hated being tested. It is like women should aspire to be with men when men get to do whatever they want and have sex with as plenty of girls they want to and it’s just not fair.