Since Zen asked, the fuh-reaky toy.
So they licensed merchandising rights to Todd Browning's Freaks to some foreign manufacturer and "goose" got mistranslated into "kitten"?
My mom worked in secretarial jobs since before she met my dad, always managed the money, and was the primary bread winner of our family from 1982 until I moved out on my own at 23.
My mother's told me that once, she called to apply for a job, and they asked if she was calling on behalf of her husband.
I had a baby blanket and a onesie emblazoned with the ERA logo.
Heh. I had overalls with a male/female equality symbol on the front. Good times, good times.
My mom had
Ms. Magazine
in the bathroom for on-the-pot reading and had a copy of
The Feminine Mystique
on a prominent bookshelf.
huh, I was raised in Texas and um, yeah, none of that. Although my mom did work out of the home pretty steadily from 1977 on.
I have an awesome Ms Magazine cover as a poster in my office, with "Wonder Woman for President" on it. Kick ass.
Good times on the SAG Awards:
Chandra Wilson and Hugh Laurie in a row!
We had Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex on the bookshelf downstairs.
We didn't have any of that sort of stuff around, except for Free to Be ... You and Me. My mom worked outside the home part-time until I was in kindergarten, but then stopped until a year or two ago. The first time I saw "Our Bodies, Our Selves" was when my sister brought it home from college.