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Happy Birthday E.!

By Ann Bartow

We were teenagers but the drinking age in New York at the time was 18, and though none of us had yet reached that benchmark, a few had drivers’ licenses and cars, so we were able to gain access and admission to a rural dive bar that needed our babysitting money fueled business. And so it came to pass that on this very date, in the late 1970s, a large group of proto-feminist female friends (I’m using “females” to punt the girls v. women question, some of us were but 15) presented our friend E. with a very special battery powered birthday present, but we wouldn’t allow her to open it until a few pitchers of beer had been consumed, and this song was playing on the jukebox.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on March 22, 2008 (boomark / email).