Today's ME-TV episode- Susan B. Anthony...

Saw this one today. In part, I remember it from long ago. Seems to me that any supporter of women's rights in the early 70s would have been upset at the way it portrays that era's women's movement.

In the episode, Billie Jo returns from a long trip, wearing a man's-style suit, spewing all sorts of talk about "equality" without really having a clue what it was she was campaigning for. She drops by the barber shop without any purpose. While there, she doesn't converse at all with the others in the shop, is troubled by cigar smoke, and even when welcomed into the barber chair, has no desire for any sort of treatment from the barber.

In the end, she cancels a women's rally they were to hold simply because she made up with her boyfriend Jerry, which was the thing that spurred her action.

She boasted to Bobbie Jo that some members of her women's group are in favor of total segregation between the sexes. Bobbie says, "But if women don't marry men, who else is there?" (To the younger reader, I'll explain that this is the way people commonly spoke from the dawn of history until, oh, about the last 20 years.)

Whatever legitimate causes women had for those rallies back then, they were certainly not advanced by this episode. Of course it was all done for fun, I'm just saying that I bet some "women's libbers" were troubled by this episode.