PC

Our busy Sunday ends at the pool and frankly I am beat. But this the way it is supposed to be. Kids now watch Harry Potter and Madeleine bursts into tears missing Sonnet, who safely arrives in Santa Fe in time for the "Native American" market. Justin asks me if I can say "Indian" and you know - I am not sure if this politically correct in 2009. When we left the US 13 years ago "Indian" still Ok, but things have changed. This in large part due to my generation that refuses to accept blind stereotypes. We have have learned from the Civil Rights movement and Women's Lib; technology and communication bring it together. I think about this watching AMC's wonderful "Mad Men" which is as much about the early 1960s as Madison Avenue. The drama presents an unattractive world for women - no safe haven for they, including the office, gynecologist, or home. The first episode of Series One gives us new secretary Peggy, who is propositioned by three male superiors just three weeks into the job and sleeps with one of them .. her doctor tells her, mid-vaginal examination, that he will take her off the pill should she become the neighborhood "pump." Yes, our society improves and progress slow but forward. Will our children be in a better place?