The Hidden Algorithms

Some women get brunch. The rest of us get erased.

In Mexico, I met a woman the system loved.

She was the kind of woman the patriarchy rewards:
Shallow. Abusive. Pretty. Blind. Sexually available to men.
Charismatic. “Fun.” The kind of fun men like.
Her kids had cut her off completely—no surprise—but she couldn’t understand why.

What she did talk about was all the help she’d gotten.
She told me about grants s…