Letters to the Editor
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I didn't get the memo
I did not see feminism get battered. Being a Bay Area person, I do recall reading about the FA (Ms. Ong) calmly describing the scene to authorities. I read about the boiled water attack. I read that all of the firefighters happened to be male, which makes sense given that few NY firefighters are women. I did hear the Transit Authority's female dispatcher's last panicked call from the call center before she died. I recall the female NYC cop who was photographed helping a bleeding business man just an hour before she died in the collapse. I saw photos of many men in the wreckage and a goodly number of women who specialize in managing rescue and cadaver dogs. I read obituaries for women workers in the towers. I read about the Barbara Olsen, who called her husband from her doomed flight that hit the Pentagon.
On the "lighter" side, I heard about all those people who decided that life was short and marriage might be good after all. Those people were men. The spin was that all these commitment phobic bachelors and divorced guys saw the error of their ways.
On the heaviest side of all, I hear about women coming home from the various wars with limbs missing.
I guess I missed something. Maybe it is because I, as a 1970s feminist, *have* seen great improvements for women and have not been actively looking for umbrage at some puff pieces and snark from middle aged male dinosaurs hoping to get their licks in while their ideology is twitching in the tar pit.