This is your life. . .

kc

Through the years, women have struggled for equal rights.  Brave women who fought against injustice and gender bias, to give future women a better life. 

Their names and deeds live on.

But few realize the unsung heroine we have in #A.  Quiet, self-effacing, level-headed kc!

kc begin her fight for women's equality at an early age.  We have gathered facts and events from family and friends

to prepare this timeline of her gallant efforts for the cause.

 

1972 kc refused to wear pink diapers.
1973 First words:  Equal pay for equal work!
1977 Organized her preschool to demand that the girls got as many graham crackers as the boys.
1979 Threw her new birthday Barbie at her Uncle Nigel and called him a chauvinist pig.
1981 She begged for a bra, so she could burn it.
1984 Started signing her name "kc", not wanting to be labeled by society because of a "girl's name".
1988 Told her boy friend she would break his arm if he held one more door open for her.
1990 Picketed Mark's & Spenser's when they refused to sell her an Eton tie.
1993 Handcuffed herself to Buckingham Palace to protest the Queen's taste in frilly hats.
1995 Formed MANBWAB (Men Are Nice, But Women Are Better).  Membership is still growing.
1997 Wrote a now-classic treatise on beauty pageants:  Cleavage Doesn't Mean Brains.
1999 Opened a shelter for women who were sick of being called "hun".
2000 Received an honorary degree from Oxford for her work in Women's Rights.
2002 Having completed her fight in the UK, makes plans to spread the word aboard.

kc's role models

Dorothea Beale, Mary Wollstonecraft,  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst,

Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pamela Anderson

kc's Primer of Bad Advertising

 

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**Midi:  "I Am Woman"