According to the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, it was considered unladylike to call a horse a mare.
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According to the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, it was considered unladylike to call a horse a mare.
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Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike.
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