So, it really was the sexism

*pretends to be shocked*

In early June of 2017, I stood outside the Asian American Reformed Church of Bigelow, Minnesota, and asked the question I’d wanted to ask all morning.

The days were still edged in spring chill, and the whole town smelled like cut grass and weed killer. The pastor I was talking to didn’t look at me when he answered.

“I just don’t like her,” he said.

I’d spe…