She was a shieldmaiden who would rather spend her days fighting and doing male sports instead of female activities.
Further, Gilman states that female activities in general are directed by men.
Both male and female homosexual activity is legal in the Dominican Republic.
When men shop, they are engaging in what is inherently a female activity.
At the same time religion had become predominantly a female activity by the early twentieth century.
Nor need it be an exclusively female activity, as many people would have us believe.