Gloria Steinem’s Life, Onstage
As I entered a Midtown Manhattan building a couple of years ago, I spotted a slim familiar-looking woman with blond hair rushing out. Wide-eyed, I asked the two thirty-something security guards–one male, one female–“Was that Gloria Steinem?”
They replied, “Who’s Gloria Steinem?”
A few days later, I related my astonishment about the guards’ reaction to two other thirty-somethings–one male, one female–whom I know to be college-educated, media savvy and squarely in favor of equality for women.
They, too, asked, “Who’s Gloria Steinem?”