Letters to the Editor
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Please come to Boston for the springtime...
And good luck Ms. Valenti! It's all flip-flops and wonder-bras here with the best and brightest of our nation's young women.
I grew up in the 70s, and sort of expected women to at least act like they were equal, or wanted to be. And like many men, I eventually got turned off by the "all men suck all the time" meme. Now I find myself in my 40s in practically a seller's market because, hey! I'm not an asshole! Or at least not a great big one.
I work in IT. The women in my department have no trouble figuring out how to fix things, how to make things work. But out there in the mostly white, college-educated, middle-to-upper middle-class user community? Why those pretty little things with the haircuts and the shoes and the bags just couldn't possibly figure out how to plug in their keyboard. Much less carry a computer all the way across the room to another desk. Heavens no! They'd get the vapors, I swear.
Just this lunchtime I saw a young woman literally standing in front of the door, waiting for her male friend to open it for her.
You've got a long way to go, and a long row to how. And 100 shades of lip gloss.