Um. Err. What?

[JDPriestly]

12. Acttually, having lived as a woman at that time, I really like it.

I don't say a lot about feminism on DU because others cover the topic better than I would.

But Bernie Sanders demonstrated that he was struggling with the changes going on at that time in a very thoughtful way.

Young people today have no idea what we women went through in the 1960s, 1970s and prior to that time.

We all wore hats and white gloves to church on Easter Sunday, but a surprising number of the girls I went to high school with were pregnant and married by the time I graduates. The number of professions and jobs that girls could think about doing was very limited. Few doctors. Lots of nurses. Women were viewed as permanent caretakers.

I did not enter the profession that was fulfilling and right for me until I reached my 50s. I could not think about it because when I was young, very few women entered that profession, and when I was a young mother, I could not take the time away from my children and earning a living to enter it. Women born just 4-6 years after I was had many, many more opportunities professionally than I did.

The view of women was just as Bernie Sanders described it. We were the "weaker sex," accused of changing our minds a lot . . . . The list of our deficiencies according to the common belief at that time goes on and on. We were a joke. Lucy of I Love Lucy and Gracie Allen were what people thought of when they thought of "girls" or women.

We women went through quite a struggle, and that struggle continues to this day.

Bernie demonstrated a lot of understanding and insight, and i must say, patience in that article. And he was fairly young at the time.