Re: [Dems2008] Re: The Sisterhood's Generation Gap

And I'm one of those white 60+ women who are supposed to be voting for
Hillary, and certainly old enough to be your mother. I was in a "man's
job" during the 60s-70s, and was absolutely delighted when one of my
male opponents would tell me I was way too pretty to be a lawyer,
because the next thing he would do was to spill his case to me out in
the hall. Terrific advantage, while it lasted. I represented a total
of three battered women during my career in court, breaking my back to
get them into shelters, get papers filed, fighting for restraining
orders at a time when they did not exist, and after all that each of the
three of them went back to HIM, and I never got paid. I gave orders in
my office that we would no longer represent battered women, and would
not even interview them - they could go to Legal Aid. I too was a
single mom and had 2 kids to support....I used to tell my friends and
family that I never had time to be liberated, I was always working too
hard....Carol

ann_arbor_gal wrote:
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>
> I relate easily to the points made in that article. I'm 34 yrs old,
> and work in a male-dominated profession. I'm neither beautiful nor
> homely, average height, average weight. I've actually seen as much or
> more discrimination against MEN as women: on the basis of weight,
> looks, height, accent, religion, and sexual orientation.
>
> I know my mother and her generation have a very different take on such
> things than do I. I have only read about what it was like in the
> 1950s, 1960s when women were first making a lot of the strides, and I
> know that I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.
>

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