Who else has Betty Friedan screamed at, besides me?

[Sugar Smack]

It was at a book signing. She was talking with me about big businesses swallowing up little businesses. I listened to her and was about to tell her about my experience in a large book store chain, and how awful it had been before I quit, and suddenly her face darkened. She shouted, out of nowhere-

"YOU YOUNG PEOPLE ALL HAVE THIS BLANK LOOK ON YOUR FACES AND I CAN'T STAND THAT! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE WORLD WORKS THESE DAYS! I'M SO SICK OF YOUR IGNORANCE!!!"

I told her calmly what I'd been thinking, and then she nodded without apology. This was 6 years ago.

My boss told me later if she'd been me, she would have cried. Hey BETTY, if you're reading this, you may have been at the forefront of the women's movement, but you're NOT a mind-reader!! *gives Betty raspberry* Plthlbt!

[idgiehkt]

1. She died in February.

That is really strange behavior. Wow.

[Richardo]

2. Serves her right for treating Sugie that way.

:grr:

[Sugar Smack]

13. Just for that,

:loveya:

"Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag,
Got to find just the kind or I'm losin' my mind

Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day,
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way.

Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day,
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way.
Lookin' back

Lookin' for some happiness
But there is only loneliness to find
Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind, yeah!

Lookin' for some happiness
But there is only loneliness to find
Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind.

Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag,
Got to find just the kind or I'm losin' my mind

Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day,
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way.

Lookin' back on the track for a little little green bag,
Got to find just the kind or I'm losin' my mind,
Alright.

Lookin' for some happiness
But there is only loneliness to find
Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind.

Pa pa pa pa pa pa ...."

[Sugar Smack]

3. Really? Wow.

I didn't know that. This year?

[idgiehkt]

7. yes.

imagine what she was like at the end if she was this way to you six years ago. I keep praying I won't be a bitter person when I get old but as bitter as I already am at this age it isn't looking good.

[Sugar Smack]

17. Hey, yours was a really thoughtful response.

I like you very much. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Psycho...

Sounds like something I'd do... :P

[Sugar Smack]

6. What, scream at me or give the hoss a really GOOD Elaine-shove?

:D :rofl: :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Bwahahaha!

Oh, I'd never scream at *you*...Except for that righteous hilarious screming we do at each other on the phone, that is. :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

21. That was FUN!

:bounce: That was Way up there!!!!

[MrCoffee]

5. Gloria Steinem bitch-slapped me once

[Sugar Smack]

10. NO WAY!!!

:D

[bicentennial_baby]

11. ....

:spray:

[Richardo]

12. I bet she didn't call it that, though.

:)

[MrCoffee]

14. She said "Here's five across the lip, mofo!" SCHMACK!

[Richardo]

16. .

:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

18. Is there any possible way I could meet you & Richardo IRL?

Is there? :loveya:

[Sanity Claws]

9. Yikes! I would have reacted badly

It sounds like it was a book signing event. I would have returned the book and demand a full refund because I couldn't learn anything from such a witch.

[Sugar Smack]

19. It was. It was her last book, "Fountain of Age".

Before she started screaming at me, I did get her autograph on my copy of "The Feminine Mystique". Then I sssloooowly backed away.

[Misunderestimator]

15. Whoa... that's really weird.

[Sugar Smack]

20. I know. I went positively bug-eyed.

My boss, who was a great deal shyer than me, was shaking a little. But she was also there when my FAVORITE cartoonist, Doug Marlette, showed up. THAT booksigning went really well!

:D

[asthmaticeog]

22. Germaine Greer kicked me out of bed for wanting to leave the light on.

Don't even ASK me about that thumb. :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

24. Ungrit my teeth, please.

Unfix my hair.

:grr: :nuke: I'll fucking finish her.

[Sugar Smack]

25. Even though she was in Ab Fab.

:D

[asthmaticeog]

26. You can fucking finish her.

I'd rather do the opposite, myself.

:freak:

[Richardo]

30. .

(c) 2006 asthmaticeog

[Sugar Smack]

35. OH.

:loveya: Oh!

[MrCoffee]

27. You're a better man than I...I'd have prayed for darkness

[asthmaticeog]

28. Male chauvanist pig.

:P

[MrCoffee]

29. Finally, a little recognition!!!!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

23. Now that is bizarre

It could have been that she was reacting from her own experiences and impressions of young people from meeting them at booksignings and the like on previous occasions -although even then I'd see her reaction was ummm...a bit extreme to put it mildly -but to actually yell before you even had the chance to talk -now that's just weird. Certainly gives you an interesting story to tell

[Sugar Smack]

39. One second I was sitting there listening and the next she was

screaming at me for the "look on my face". A girl walked by wearing a "Girls Kick Ass" T-Shirt, and Betty gave her the thumbs-up while I was like "What'd I do?" :o Eek!

[tigereye]

31. I saw her speak once - there was no screaming, though

then I broke up with the guy I had taken to the lecture!

I was so evil back then. :evilgrin:


OTOH, she was pretty intense to start with.

I'm assuming Molly Yard and GLoria Steinem never screamed at you. ;)

[idgiehkt]

36. molly yard

that's a name I haven't heard in a while...

[GalleryGod]

32. What a Friggin' Trip ?

Let's See?
Betty Friedan?
Some DUer?










I'll take Betty,thank you very much.

[Sugar Smack]

37. Don't be a brat, GG. n/t

[Richardo]

33. how could this thread NOT be nominated?

I fixed that.

[billyskank]

34. :)

:)

[Sugar Smack]

38. Why am I thinking of the song "Wind beneath my wings"

all of the sudden? :D You're delish, BTW!

[SteppingRazor]

40. Anthony Kiedis once told me to "fuck off"

But, no, no screaming from Betty Freidan. Kiedis is the only famous person who ever mouthed off to me -- if memory serves me correctly.

OH! Wayne Brady once hung up on me.

I think that's it, though there could be more.

[Sugar Smack]

41. WHOA- Please tell us about "Tony".

PLEASE???:loveya: :yourock: :pals: :grouphug:

[SteppingRazor]

42. It was sometime in the spring of 2000, I believe...

on the Foo Fighters/Red Hot Chili Peppers Tour. I was in my last year of college, and worked as a local roadie at the college's football stadium, basketball center and other performance venues. Basically, we'd serve as extra hands for the roadies whenever an act came to town. I roadied for a bunch of stuff -- 311, Widespread Panic, hell even the freaking Promise Keepers, which was actually the largest show I worked.

Anyway, I was working the Foo Fighters/Chili Peppers show, which was a pretty big production and I worked my ass off all day, mostly doing jobs the roadies didn't want to do -- hauling around heavy stuff, etc. When it was all done, I was backstage chugging down a water, looking grimy and tired. The Foo Fighters came by toward the stage to go on. I yelled, "Have a good show, guys!" Dave Grohl said, "Thanks, man!" They went on stage and kicked ass.

So, the Chili Peppers come out, and I say the same thing to them -- "have a good show!" Kiedis replies, very nonchalantly, "Fuck you. We will."

I think I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. I mean, it was so uncalled for, and I had just worked my ass off for this show all day. I debated slinging my water bottle at him, but given who he is and all, I figured that would end badly for me. So I went out into the crowd once their set had started and lobbed the bottle at him from the safety of the masses. And then I crowd-surfed.

The end.

[Sugar Smack]

43. Wow. Who knew he was such a little princess?

I'd love to think he said "thank you" & you'd misheard it, but I'm also perfectly aware that some people have horrible manners. :wow:

That was a great story, too. I'd bet you'd be a really interesting person to know IRL. :pals: :yourock:

[idgiehkt]

44. that sucks

this is a funny story that might make you feel better about it. I saw an interview with Roseanne Barr a while back and she said that she got into a 12 step program for some addiction and she had to make amends for bad stuff she did and one of the things she used to do was make prank calls to celebrities. The interviewer asked her if anyone had refused to 'forgive' her and she said that Anthony Kiedis had. She said she had called his house one night and left a message on his answering machine with a fake British accent and pretended to be some groupie he had slept with at a show and said she had his child and she wanted the child to know his father, and then hung up.

She said when she made the apology he just looked at her and said "My girlfriend broke up with me over that" and walked away. He was still really pissed. :rofl: I guess what goes around comes around.