LogFAQs > #955506882

I grew up during the 70s and 80s and it was far worse then for women than now. I'm not going to cite examples of stuff that happened to me because it'd be far too much to write. Just some minor stuff is like, I wanted to play drums in the school band and my music teacher forced me to take flute because "girls don't play the drums" (uh, Karen Carpenter?) When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, I said a fireman, and my 3rd grade teacher laughed out loud and she said "women can't be firemen!!" and the whole class laughed at me. They might seem trivial but when stuff like this happens day in and day out, it really starts to wear you down. It's people's attitudes all around. There were no fantasy movies that had strong women in them, females were always helpless princesses who needed to be saved. My parents were just as discouraging. The stuff that people complain about now often makes me think, wow, they never would have survived back then.