Yet we've made incredible strides, legally and culturally, in the last 100 years. For a time, as we gained power, our exuberance morphed into superiority. We became a little insufferable, frankly. They'rebeyond measuring themselves as if men were the yardstick and as if success could be defined only against some blueprint men had designed. Our lives are not the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago when we jumped on the feminism bandwagon.
Women fly into space and send troops into battle and crack mysterious scientific codes.
It's not only in TV skits and fantasy books that we can imagine a woman serving as president. Yes, we still chafe over pay discrimination when it happens, but now we have legal recourse. And yes, we grow impatient with men who assume we're the secretary and not the boss, and we'd sure like more help around the house. But we're not as angry as we were, mostly because we have less to be angry about. We've moved on, and it's time Madison Avenue and the media did, too.