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...awards. After the requisite raucous parade through Harvard Square, featuring jugglers and Pudding actors in drag ("We're on the cutting edge of androgyny," boasted one), the pop singer-turned-actress was presented with the traditional pudding pot and ribbed about her wiry physique (she was given an oversize bra), her unorthodox attire and her one-word name (suggested new last names: "Cropper" or "of the Pot"). Sallied Cher: "I don't know what the other recipients did with their pots, but I'm going to make an earring out of mine...
...children have advantages she never had. She boasts about my "beautiful banker daughter" Donna. She still makes time to go shopping for clothes with her daughters, as on a recent Saturday morning. She fretted about getting mobbed in the dressing room, having to answer questions "in my Bermudas and bra," but swallowed her dignity and went anyway. Only one person-a neighbor-recognized her. "It was weird," she said, sounding slightly disappointed...
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Betty Friedan wrote what is now considered to be the original feminist bible: The Feminine Mystique. Setting the tone for the bra-burning feminists of the 1960's. Friedan began a revolutionary and radical questioning of a woman's place in society. Since then, the polemical rhetoric of the women's movement's early stages has gradually been replaced by a more moderate and rational argument for sexual equality. More and more feminists are asserting that women can be "different but equal...
...thing, girls like Janet don't seem to realize that Jamie Rogers. You see, she's hard to get. Unimpressed with the blue eyes that send the training-bra set into hysterics, she sends back the requisite two dozen roses and the gift-wrapped new car. When he tracks her down to her favorite restaurant, she snubs him and his bubbly once again. "I don't know your music," she says. "It's bubble gum." Her taste: Tony Bennett...
...SIGNIFICANTLY, the newsletter confirms a persistent fear on the part of many women that their acceptance as equals is only superficial. That when the doors close at the Pi Eta Club, in the locker room; or at any other all-male sanctuary, men stop talking equality, and start talking bra size...