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When It Comes To The Stock Market, Women Win The War Of The Sexes
In 2009, I began paying a lot of attention to tall and tattooed young men, thanks to my son Lucas’s newfound passion for basketball. Because of him, my lifetime professional basketball game attendance went up a mere 3,000% or so in six months.
We had a lot of fun, and I enjoyed watching the guys duke it out.
Even so, the highlight of my basketball experiences that year was going to Madison Square Garden to see the WNBA’s New York Liberty take on the Connecticut Sun. That’s because Billie Jean King was there. When the announcer called her name, she stood up and waved. The crowd went wild.
So did I.
Billie Jean rocked my world in 1973. I was an eleven-year-old girl in desperate need of role models when she beat professional Male Chauvinist Pig and master showman Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of the Sexes.”
At that moment, a world of possibilities opened up to me.
An unexpected bonus at the WNBA game was that many of the men’s rooms had been temporarily converted into women’s rooms, given that women vastly outnumbered the men. If you don’t think bathrooms are a topic worthy of mention in an essay, it’s a fair bet that you are not female.
