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(81,220 posts)The double standard just infuriates me!
I'm texting with my daughter who lives several states away. She's been watching the speeches and loving it. But she's a Millennial. While she's supported Hillary from the beginning (with no lobbying from me, btw - she got there on her own), she doesn't fully understand the full extent of the struggle that women have had - to bring us to this point now, where young women her age don't even HAVE to have an awareness of that struggle. It's just not in their world. We have, by now, broken down enough of the bigger barriers that her generation isn't hamstrung and having to fight their way through blockages and jump over hurdles like women my age did.
She's amazed, genuinely dumbfounded actually, when I tell her about how her dad and I were turned down when we first tried to rent an apartment after we'd gotten back from our honeymoon - because I hadn't changed my last name. Or about the horny state senator who tried to bend me backwards over a teletype machine when we'd taken the shortcut through the newsroom after an interview and he noticed nobody else was in there. Or the program director (who HAD been someone I considered an ally and friend) who fired me because he wanted to hire his buddy, telling me "well, at least you have a husband" - when my husband was between jobs and mine was the only paycheck we had. She's amazed to hear those things. "Wow, that's crazy!" she says. Yeah, my sweet baby girl. It was. And it still seems so now. But it HAPPENED. That shit HAPPENED. That shit, and more.