[ Skills that were ironically gained at a point in time where hiding a murder victim was really the least of most people's worries. There were few repercussions to killing in a world that subjective.
She snorts a bit. ] Yeah, women weren't really equal back home, neither. We sort of had the label, some of the perks, at least for most of my life. We could vote and work and men were supposed to get in trouble for hurtin' us. Stuff like that. But it wasn't real equality. Paid less, treated worse. And then...
[ Julie can't help but trail off. After society collapsed, being a woman was easily the most risky thing left. Men kidnapped women, raped them in plain sight, kept them as slaves. Even in New Vegas, which did have enforced laws against such things, those rules didn't apply to the pleasure girls, people enslaved for encroaching on the territory without intention to join them willingly. Those girls were given as prizes to death match winners and Flagg's favored. And even women like Julie and Nadine were treated as objects, gifts to give and entice others into whatever Flagg wanted. She doesn't suffer any delusions that they were ever anything more.
Welcome to the 21st fucking century, same as every other in history. ]
When everythin' you ever knew is in one place, it's hard to leave it behind. [ There was a reason that Julie didn't leave Kansas until she had to. Before Trips, there had been nothing stopping her from just getting in a car and driving away from Pratt forever, if she really wanted to. People without money move all the time. But everyone she had ever known and loved was in that tiny shithole town, and she didn't know how to walk away from that. ] But you give someone the right incentive, and they'll make it happen.
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She snorts a bit. ] Yeah, women weren't really equal back home, neither. We sort of had the label, some of the perks, at least for most of my life. We could vote and work and men were supposed to get in trouble for hurtin' us. Stuff like that. But it wasn't real equality. Paid less, treated worse. And then...
[ Julie can't help but trail off. After society collapsed, being a woman was easily the most risky thing left. Men kidnapped women, raped them in plain sight, kept them as slaves. Even in New Vegas, which did have enforced laws against such things, those rules didn't apply to the pleasure girls, people enslaved for encroaching on the territory without intention to join them willingly. Those girls were given as prizes to death match winners and Flagg's favored. And even women like Julie and Nadine were treated as objects, gifts to give and entice others into whatever Flagg wanted. She doesn't suffer any delusions that they were ever anything more.
Welcome to the 21st fucking century, same as every other in history. ]
When everythin' you ever knew is in one place, it's hard to leave it behind. [ There was a reason that Julie didn't leave Kansas until she had to. Before Trips, there had been nothing stopping her from just getting in a car and driving away from Pratt forever, if she really wanted to. People without money move all the time. But everyone she had ever known and loved was in that tiny shithole town, and she didn't know how to walk away from that. ] But you give someone the right incentive, and they'll make it happen.