Mr. John Locke has been chilling and drinking at a bar.

He is used to ignoring the humming

and easy noise on the background so that when the noise is suddenly stopped and a deadly silence
covered the bar, it draws his attention. The sound of heels echoing at the bar as Locke turns around
to see the person entered the bar, he briefly surprises like the rest of the bar. Because the shock and
silence that covered the whole bar is quite normal, as the person who walked into the bar is a
woman. The woman is Mary Wollstonecraft herself.

Wollstonecraft approaches to the bar sits next to Locke. Puts her handbag on the counter,
crosses her legs and stares at the bartender, which is as shocked as any other person at the bar,
expectantly. Locke seems not interested and minds his own business shortly.

Wollstonecraft: Will I have a drink at some point tonight?

The bartender doesn’t know what to do at first but then he decides that one drink would not
hurt anyone and maybe she’ll leave just after she finishes her drink. So, he pours her a glass of neat
whiskey and puts the glass in front of her with a piece of napkin.

She takes a sip of her drink and speaks before turning her head to Locke.

Wollstonecraft: Here I am having a drink as the only lady in the room and everyone around us is
baffled but not you. You’re not interested at all.

Locke: Why would I be baffled? Aren’t you a human being too?

W: Yes, I am but in the eyes for many others and the government, I’m not as human as a man. So
that the bafflement of others as I entered this bar is also expected.

L: Government is something that our ancestors created so that we could have an artificial order,
exchange for our fundamental rights. Its opinion about you shouldn’t be a limitation or a criterion of
how you define yourself or what you could do.

W: *laughs* It already isn’t but unfortunately, it affects how I walk, laugh, talk or basically live.
Because this damn society has an expectation of me about how I should live and if I don’t live up to
it, then I’m the guilty one. And the government is the first enemy of mine about how I should live.

L: The concept of government is something that we just live along with. I believe we would be much
better off without it but here we are, trying to follow its rules. But at some points, if it protects our
rights to life, liberty and property it’s a gain and a good thing to have.

W: Of course, that would be nice to have government and laws above us if those three rights you’ve
just counted were accountable for me too as much as they do for men. But according to this
government, I have no right over my own children who I carried in my stomach for months and
having a property is not even on the table! I can’t even inherit my father’s property to myself, my
husband has more rights on those than me!

L: Calm down, I’m not pro-government on everything either! You’re right, as a human being and a
member of this society you should have had the equal circumstances since they’re your fundamental
rights. But today, we live in a men’s world.

Wollstonecraft drinks up all the whiskey left in her glass at once tensely and slams the glass
on the counter as she rises from her seat.

W: You have very progressive thoughts, and you are a man way ahead of his time Mr. Locke. But
you’re a man, after all. I guess we’re quite lucky as the human race that you were born as a man.
L: And why is that?

W: So that you could had a proper education and had been able to spread your thoughts much easier
than a woman could ever have. Maybe your ideas would enlighten more minds and us women could
have easier lives.

And Wollstonecraft leaves the bar with the following gazes just as she entered the bar.