I was born in 1951. Nobody ever told me I had to wash dishes or do girl's work. My mother was born in 1925, andd perhaps she was told that, but she certainly didn't let it stop her doing a man's job for the rest of her life. She raced cars, owned businesses, joined associations where she was the only woman, and so on.

I have always wondered whether this idea came from that women were socialized to think that they served men.

As for Leah's gold bikini - so what. It certainly didn't make me think any less of her. She didn't make that choice herself. She was a prisoner, and the men her jailers put it on her.

I also have to confess that I never had idols or people I put on platforms. To me, I was just as good as they were, and they were no better than I was. Then, again, I didn't grow up in a place where I heard other people talking about other people and admiring them.