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I think they were all sort of connected. 

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The, the, the attack—she wasn't so much explicitly attacked as, for being female, as insidiously attacked for being female. 

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So, there would be little whispers about, "is she taking proper care of her child," as a way of dismissing her aspirations to elective office.

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Or, there would be sort of, you know, gales of laughter when she introduced legislation for equal pay for equal work for women

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into the territorial legislation in 1950—legislature in 1957, and people introduced "husbands' rights" bills, you know to,

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so that husbands would have rights to some of their wives' equal pay, and, you know, junk like that. 

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So there were, for, on the, on the gender thing, there was this demeaning and trivializing, and fun–making, and disparaging, rather than sort of the, 

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the attack against the communist, right? The attack against the communist came over issues of war and peace, and military build-up, and 

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whether or not we should have a nuclear test ban treaty, and, and things like that.