Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 2

With Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, I still find myself stuck on the family dynamic of the book.  I just don't get why Dorothy's mom and aunt were so secretive when it came to the family tree, I'm not sure what they were trying to hide from here. Like what could have been so bad, or what did they have to be ashamed of? I come from an open family so it just makes me wonder why they are so against sharing things with Dorothy.  I was also not a fan of the way the men is Dorothy's family treated the women.  The fact that it was an autobiography made that worse.  I hate to think of women being abused in any way and verbal abuse is definitely a no-no.  I guess what made me dislike that so much is that obviously I'm a woman so I wouldn't want to be treated like that. But I have grown up in a family where the women are cherished and almost put up on a pedestal.  If a man in my family were to refer to any woman as an 'ugly bitch' or anything else along those lines there would be repercussions.  It's appalling to refer to a woman like that, any woman: daughter, wife, sister, mom, niece, grand child. It's disgusting so I was almost offended reading those words.  I think the men in Dorothy's family need to have more respect because women do a lot for them. Women did much more for men back when this story was set than they do now. So it's shameful for them not to appreciate it.  I'm still a bit hung up on those things and can't really get passed them at the moment.