History of Feminism

... is that I expect them to be practical.

A little story from a lady friend, whose mother was a nurse and father a doctor. This was back in the days when the doctor had his office at home. My friend, around age seven or thereabouts, comes up to her mother one day and says "I think I'm in trouble." She shows her mother her hand, which she had closed around a two-edged razor blade. Mom takes my friend to the office, asks her husband "Is it all right, now? Do you have her?" When he says yes... she faints dead away.

-- Mal