I've become a one issue voter this year

[CTyankee]

39. Rebecca Traister addresses this in her recent book "Big Girls Don't Cry", about the 08 election.

The younger women who perhaps had not been very active in feminist circles did not know what the hanger meant. And "Dirty Dancing" came out in 1987. That year my daughter was graduating from Mount Holyoke College. She knew about the abortion rights struggle (I was involved in it). She had campaigned for Mondale/Ferraro. I was so pleased that my daughter's generation was so informed and active and aware of what my generation of women had had to endure.

Her oldest daughter, my first grandchild, is now 16 years old and is growing up in a very liberal Boston area community. She is VERY aware of the marriage equity movement, but I doubt if she knows the coat hanger history (or even the ERA history, for that matter). I doubt if she has seen "Dirty Dancing." It would be a good thing to have this discussion with her, because she won't learn about them if we don't. In two years she will be able to vote. When she goes into that voting booth, I want her to know everything she needs to know to vote for the well being of herself and other women, including her two younger sisters.