The word ‘discount’ has two meanings, and women live inside both.
The first is the one we know from the market. A discount is a price reduction. You mark something down, sell it for less than it is worth, and let it go cheap. The second meaning is quieter and more damaging. To discount something is to dismiss it. To treat it as unimportant. To wave it away as though it does not really count.
Women do both, constantly, to the most valuable thing they own. Themselves, and their own future. And it is always the same reflex, wearing different clothes in different rooms. Her value is the one thing she has been trained to treat as negotiable, at the market stall, in the boardroom, and at her own kitchen table.
This is the mother of all discounts. Not a single decision, but a lifelong habit of marking herself down
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