Originally Posted by Hektore

I think the whole idea here is a bit old-fashioned, which is one of the reasons I brought this question to the TFP - to get differing, well thought out, opinions. I couldn't expect that from any of my friends or family around here. I likely would have been publicly labeled a bum for even considering not asking for explicit permission. As an example, it's not uncommon around here to find a group of elderly women discussing how it's absolutely despicable that women today want to work outside the home, and how we'd be better off as a society if they didn't. This place is awfully backward sometimes, so much so that I'm afraid of the things I don't even realize.