Hi Chuck, I'm so sorry that you would even think I thought you thought that way. I had in mind the way feminists depict the past as being blanketed with such attitudes, and those young women of today, even the ones who identify as anti-feminist, seem to have been infected with some false ideas about the past that were originated by the ideological maniacs that are the subject of Janice's essay.

My mom was actually a telephone operator when I was in kindergarten (she never was party to any high level conversations I was aware of).

One thing I admire about the women who took all those hard roles during WWII is that they didn't put ideology and/or money above their true natures or lose sight of their own femininity - they were the mothers of the baby boom.