“Now, however, it felt like he’d downgraded me from store worker to female of the human species.”

this is interesting because we would think this to be the opposite. when you work a “low-end” job, you’re no longer treated like a human. you’re just a cog in the machine.

now, it feels like you are going from the comfortable world of being a genderless, robotic store worker with no expectations outside of the manual, to the stifling world of being a woman with all of the unspoken expectations. you can be perfect and doing all the right things as a store worker, but a woman can never be perfect, it will never be enough.