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candystripper -> Loss of Betty Friedan (2/8/2006 7:42:52 PM)
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Betty Friedan died last night. Her book, "The Feminine Mystique", was my 12th birthday present from my daddy. i cannot say i understood it all, but i did understand my daddy loved me very much.
Feminism has become, to many, an archiac movement over the past 40 years. However, women my age can remember when a divorcee had no chance socially; when it was a scandal for women to hold a job; when a Man earned what -- 90%? -- more than a woman. We many of us nostaglically check off "1950's household" but we are using rose-colored glasses.
It hurts that Coretta Scott King and Betty Friendan are both so suddenly gone. What truely great women.
candystripper
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