OK--once again, I'm first; now, if anybody makes an "age before beauty" crack, they are condemned to a lifetime of "DUDS" whenever they date!
 I got the impression during class today that not many of my classmates are enjoying "Pink Think" as much as I am. Maybe sometimes it's true that "you woulda had to have been there" in order to fully appreciate something. Reading this book really brings back a lot, and although as I stated earlier I never really fell for all the crapola, it's really eye-opening and refreshing to me to see that many young girls/young women/now adult women of my era were/are feeling the same way as I did about this stuff. I only wish that as a child I had known other girls who felt the same way, because although I stayed true to myself, at times it was quite lonely--not to mention infuriating.
 But enough of my nostalgia. I am ending this particular entry with a very somber, somewhat profound observation:
 All kidding aside, it is a marvel that women as a gender, collectively and generally speaking, have been able to overcome the stereotypical suppression and come as far as we have--not to say that there isn't a long way to go yet, but in view of how we were made to feel so subordinate and helpless, so --PINK-- I say "You GO, girl!" to all who came before me and helped me add my own fuel to that same illuminating torch.