Coming out of hiding for a moment to say....
I am a feminist.
I do not hate men.
I am not ugly.
I dress fashionably in the best clothes I can afford (THANKS, EBAY), wear just enough makeup to enhance my best features, always have an up-to-date hairstyle, have perfectly manicured hands and feet, love to read Harper's and Vogue, open doors for everyone regardless of sex and, even at my advanced age of almost 48, am still "hit on". By all kinds of men. And all ages of men.(I can't believe I'm sitting here posting semi-ostensibly (or ostensibly-semi) positive things about myself while in the depths of self-deprecating depression, but this post kind of hurt. An extremely efficacious post, I might add. I really shouldn't be playing into the original poster's hands this way.)
I am also a Jersey girl. We kick ass when we're pissed. So watch it.
Rosemarie
PS Year after year, in South Jersey, I read the same comment (below) in newspaper articles about the protesters at the Miss America Pageant. I'm sure if you look throug the archives of the Camden Courier Post or the Philadelphia Inquirer, you will find the following comment in articles about the pageant made by men who observed both the contestants and the feminist protestors:
"The protesters are better looking than the contestants."
Oh,
And I don't criticize beautiful women for participating in beauty pageants. To each her own....
Back in licking my wounds mode