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To: epicure who wrote (47428)	1/31/2008 1:55:44 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541941

I don't accuse you of being wrong because you are "old"- I didn't intend to start an age war. I framed my response in those terms because Rambi yesterday had done so without incident so I thought it acceptable. I understand that there's no way you could have the same visceral sense of how it used to be for women. We've disagreed on the "privilege" of women working before. I think it's helped destroy American families and marriages. That made me angry. It must be what it feels like to be a war veteran and return home to apathy or worse. You know how hard it is to make me angry. We definitely don't disagree on how hard it is to concurrently hold a job and raise a family. It's distressing to me, though, to be confronted with such a lack of appreciation for women finally having options. Re the generation gap, I recently got digital cable. I've been watching two shows new to me that are throwbacks to different times. One is Life on Mars about a cop who finds himself back in the seventies. It contrasts the brutal, ignorant, and racist behaviors of cops in the seventies with the mollycoddling, politically correct behaviors of today. The other is Mad Men about an ad agency back when they were just beginning to have to change tactics re advertising cigarettes. The contrasts give you a jolt even if you experienced the earlier times first hand. And those times were more recent than the times before civil rights and women's rights. Being a movie buff, I'd think you'd have at least some idea of how neurotic, bored, stressed and/or just plain unhappy housewives were back before women could get meaningful employment or live independently. You would not have liked it.