>> my essay in granta is about that. was a young woman during the hayday of so-called second wave feminism. this was in the early 1970s, and what i wrote about was joining one of those early women's consciousness raising groups, and it's actually the essay is partially about my misadventures with that group, but -- [laughter] i can still remember in those days feminism and the simpest things about equal rights or things, you know, culturally were a big shock and big news, and i can still remember my astonishment at realizing that, you know, i've never seen my father wash a dish and my boyfriend didn't know how to make toast. [laughter] now i just take it for granted. [laughter] but that was just really big news in those days, and it was transformative, and it just swept through the culture, and as i say in the essays, people talked about these things on talk shows, and, of course, those problems have not been solved. they have not been solved at all, but nobody talks about them because the presumption is problem over. we