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Readers React: Amy Klobuchar and the everyday unfairness of growing up female in America

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Amy Klobuchar delivers remarks about Brett Kavanaugh on Sept. 28.
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Amy Klobuchar delivers remarks about Brett Kavanaugh on Sept. 28.
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To the editor: I was delighted and reassured to read the anecdote in Virginia Heffernan’s column about Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) arriving to elementary school in the 1970s in her bell-bottoms in violation of the dress code. According to Klobuchar, she had to return home and put on a skirt before being allowed to come back to school.

In 1968, I had learned about civil disobedience and one day defiantly arrived to Nicolas Junior High School in Fullerton wearing a pair of blue jeans. I was promptly sent to the office and told to call my parents to ask them to bring me a skirt. My parents were both working, so I spent several hours sitting in the nurse’s office fuming.

Now that I know about Klobuchar’s action, I can tell myself that great minds were thinking alike then — and that young women today have no idea what we went through.

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Loretta Howitt, Pasadena

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