Another Youtube user pointed out that i could have been nicer to my mother and sister in this story. I’m adding this note to explain my thought process.

My sister and my mother are both very nice, loving women who I care about very much. The point of this story is that they are both victims of the bad ideas that get propogated by holy books and unknowingly reinforced by parents.

So then why did I emphasize my wife’s personal qualities? In our society we tend to subconsciously make an unfair assumption that successful business women are selfish and cold. So I felt the need to explicitly say that my wife was nice.

This is a true story that showed up in my facebook news feed a few months ago. I am doing this from memory so the wording is not 100% accurate – but it’s really close.