And she's SO spot-on about this. Younger women may not fully appreciate how hard it's been to have to live with this attitude, tolerate it, rise above it, work around it, ignore it, move through it, or whatever it takes to put yourself in a better position to deal with it.
Shit, this has been going on SO damn long, since I myself was a young woman. When Barbra Streisand embarked upon a film project called "Yentl" but not as the female lead. Not as the producer or executive producer. Not as the director. But all three. MAN was shit ever thrown at her! Almost too many versions of "Who the hell does she think she is?" to count. A man could be assertive, forceful, gutsy, bold. A woman doing the same things the same way the man did them was a bitch. I was even told, in my early days of trying to find a paying job in radio just out of college in the mid-70s, that "our listeners don't like the sound of a woman's voice on the air."
There's still such a damn double standard it just makes me want to scream sometimes. An old slogan for the women's movement back then was "you've come a long way, baby." It was popularized by a new brand of cigarette designed for women. With a ring of flowers at the mouth piece and a longer, slimmer look. But I look at that packaged processed slicked-up slogan and I think - in some ways, we haven't. In some ways, we still have a looooooooooooooonnnng way to go.
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