'My mother’s 'rap' group was a consciousness raising event, similar to the CR groups founded in kitchens and living rooms across the country.'
They looked for meaning in their lonely if sometimes pampered lives, often spent serving their husbands and children.
Stylish Joyce F. lived in an upper floor of our building with her husband and poodle. She complained that her bald, ruddy-faced husband whom I knew from riding the man-operated elevator, never asked her about her domestic day, but demanded nightly sex as Walter Cronkite signed off on the CBS evening news.in Central Park, and had spent some weekends at our summer rental on Fire Island, may have been the only black woman in the group.
In sixth grade, I got chosen by Ms. Mosson—yes, she went by “Ms.”— to appear on “Not For Women Only,” a TV show hosted by Barbara Walters that covered mainstream topics of equality. I don’t think I opined as much as my teacher hoped I would—but I remember thinking this “women’s lib” thing must be a hot topic if they were devoting a whole show to it.
There seemed to be a consensus about the white male patriarchy and how it manifested at home and in the workplace. At the time, of course, I was a tomboy, an afterschool mini pool player and banana-seat bike rider. I could only glean that men were treating women unfairly.Listening to my parents fighting about the same things the women at the CR groups complained about, I developed the general theory that women weren’t considered as important as men in the overall picture.
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