Then the future that you come from is a better place indeed, if just for that. [Enjolras's smile, on realizing that point is rather beatific really, as if it could somehow burst the screen.] I am glad to know that some do not suffer as we were forced to watch and could not help. It seems as though some progress in the world has been made after all. And the question of our sisters in liberty, no, the world has often been unfair to you where I am from, and leaves you much to suffer from when economy and society make it necessary with no means of protecting yourself.. Such laws ARE wrong; there are not so many who would seek only to look beneath your skirts as you pass by.

[Do many women still wear skirts? Keelalai has Enjolras assuming differently now, but the point remains.]

There have been attempts in France, before my lifetime, during the revolution to allow you such rights of course. It is a shame, and wrong, that they did not come with the new century itself, or before it. Are you not our equals in every way?