An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.

Aren't you urban gothy types supposed to be immune to public opinion?

In partial compensation for this narrowed destiny the white world has lavished its politeness on its womankind,—its chivalry and bows, its uncoverings and courtesies—all the accumulated homage disused for courts and kings[…]

The multiplicative inverse of x is x⁻¹, as x⨯x⁻¹=1, as 1 the multiplicative identity element.