You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.