I wrote something like this on a blog, as well as an open letter to the President of the College where I have been employed detailing the way the old-boys-network has worked to favor young white males -- and she said, It is a big mistake for you to have this on an open blog (my real name is on it, and I call the CC by its name), and you sound so angry and bitter. NO ONE GOES TO MY BLOG ANYWAY. I googled my name -- and google says I'm the only person in the USA with this particular name -- and my blog doesn't even show up!

The more often anyones tell me that "You shouldn't feel that way" -- it just makes me feel more entrenched and stubborn.

Almost every older woman I talk with has had something similiar happen to her or to a woman she knows.

And being faced with homelessness by the end of the year, after working so hard to get my Ph.D. so that I would never be poor again, yeah, yup, I'm angry and bitter. You betcha.