These Days by Stephanie » Blog Archive » Damn, She's in Distress

The year before I graduated high school, Betty Friedan stormed The Oak Room, that male bastion of a bar at New York City's Plaza Hotel. I'd walked past that mysterious room, inhaling the cigarette and cigar smoke that wafted through its doors when I went to dinner with my parents at .... Or is it just kindness among either men or women and no different than the times I've given up a subway seat to a younger or older woman (or man) with a book, a heavy package, or a child? ...