there is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love. - Marge Piercy

We have been living in times in which human cruelty is all around us. Yet the world is very beautiful.

For years she had had this magic circle they could weave about themselves, luminous with Gadi's imagination, the place where she could never be lonely or bored. In that private world of play more intense, far more real than reality, she was whatever she longed for. (five: FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE: THE DAY OF ALEF)

The use of women as props for a sagging ego is accepted socially. Everybody sees it and everybody agrees that they don't.