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Somewhen between 9 -10ish yrs old
('62 - 63) I began to become more conscious of sexism. I was too young to have heard of Betty Friedan back then.
A minor occurance in the bigger picture thing; but important to us here in NYC when we had bigger snowstorms - was complaining to my parents (?5 th grade) about why we girls couldn't wear pants during, after snowstorms to school. We did get it changed!
Now, I happen to like action movies. As a kid I (by definition back then) I liked a lot of "boy" things - building blocks, wooden trains (had a set!), tinker toys, knights on horses w fancy get ups.
Knew I didn't want kids at a young age, so no interest in baby dolls.
I got the "girly" fashion bug in 5th grade;The Mod clothes scene! And jewelry? Omg, 😄 I absolutely love jewelry, and I've designed and made/make my own (not able to afford metalsmithing, though).
Love art, music from a young age.
I was very lucky my parents didn't push me in one direction, or another; they supported my interests. IF my dad had any objections, I didn't hear any arguments in that arena from behind closed doors.
My mom was a pretty extroudinary woman in certain ways. She during WW2 living in California was the heads "draftman" for either the whole, or a division of Hughes Aircraft! She had at least 25 draftsman under her. It could have been closer to 50 - 100 at some point! So all these people had to bring their work to her for final approval, and sign off. I wish I had asked her how she got the job, and why she moved to California (vs anywhere else) in the first place. She also had graduated from a big fashion, dressmaker school previously.
My sis, and I knew she was a draftsman but we didn't know she was head draftsman till only about only 17 yrs ago (I'm 72 now) till a cousin overheard us talking about her at another cousin's wedding.
My dad didn't want her to work, though. I think it might have affected her.
I always get excited when women are the lead, or co-leads in shows!
As Sci-Fi fan I love Captain Janeway; Major Kira, Jadzia Dax, from DS9; Uhura from the Kelvin timeline; the young Nurse Chapel in Strange New Worlds; T'pol & Hoshi from Enterprise; Captain Burnham, Tilly, Kern, from Discovery, Kara "Starbuck" BSG; June Osborne, Moira, Rita ftom The Handmaid's Tale; Dectective Joss Carter, Shaw, Miss Goves/Root, from Person of Interest; Agent Olivia Dunham, Agent Farnsworth, Nina Sharpe, Henrietta.
From The Good Fight: Diane Lockhart, Lucca Quin, Marissa Gold & Liz Reddick.
Murphy Brown. Mary Tyler Moore.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few!
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