Reply #242: If This Isn't Reason Enough to Keep Pushing On

[Hebegirl]

I was in 8th grade in 1977, by then girls were allowed to take shop class. And thank God for it. It was a horrible time in my life and I excelled at shop. The shop instructor was impressed, I finished all the required projects and went on to make five optional ones! I still have the bookshelf and curio shelf that I made almost 30 years ago! Shop was the ONLY thing that got me through that time in my life. Home Ec just didn't offer me the same satisfaction, of crafting something beautiful with my own hands. I shudder to think of what I would have done without that opportunity.

The situation for girls' athletics wasn't so good back then, however.
I am so pleased to see girls' sports progressing. After Junior High, any girl who remained in sports was considered a "dyke." For whatever social-pressured reasons, I stopped playing. And I had excelled volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Not to be conceited. Go Figure.