What was your first "feminist moment"?

[yellerpup]

28. 1972, when working the Chamber of Commerce...

I was called on the carpet for wearing a midi skirt. They let me know they liked me in minis, but that the midi length was not a professional look. In a follow up memo, they laid out guidelines for 'you gals' who wanted to wear pantsuits. (Little girls in the 50s and 60s had to wear skirts or dressed to school even when the snow was ass deep to a tall injun) They suggested polyester pantsuits, with flowery prints or plaid on the top with solid bottoms and NEVER the reverse. And I thought to myself, "These guys don't have a clue about how a woman dresses. What are they doing making the rules? Why do they think they can do this?" That's when I began educating myself on the women's movement and began participating in the great Liberation movement. Small things sometimes get the mind to click. This was a small thing that ticked me off enough to change the course of my life.