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Paris Review: Women in Trees.

Get down, history has said to the grown woman brazen enough to take even a brief arboreal leave from her earthly duties. Once a woman is off the ground, it may occur to her to keep on climbing. A man might find himself standing beneath her, subject to the sight of her womanly behind on a branch above his head.

What a miserable archetype! Never thought about it that way. But as with all archetypes, one can feel that influence suffused throughout our culture once it is voiced clearly.