Robin Abcarian: It's been 50 years since Ms. magazine made its debut. Why is the patriarchy still alive and well?
Who would have thought, back when the women's media landscape was dominated by Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, that a magazine born of the second great American feminist wave would be around 50 years later?
Certainly not the late Harry Reasoner, who, as the anchor for ABC Evening News, personified the white male media establishment.
"After you've done marriage contracts, role-changing, female identity crisis, what do you do next? Organize foods for Christmas dinner, I expect," proclaimed Reasoner after paging through the first issue of Ms. magazine in 1972.
Five years later, his portrait appeared in a full-page New York Times ad celebrating Ms.' fifth anniversary. You couldn't see the egg
