Shopping at CVS

When I was in college I lived in a student cooperative. The women's houses, like all accredited female student housing in those days, had house mothers and lock-out rules. We were the first to introduce co-ed student housing in the nation. Nearly 40 years later I was serving as Alumni Rep on the Board of Directors, the meetings rotated between houses, and one meeting was at one of the only two remaining women-only houses. No house mother; no lock out. As we went to leave after the meeting, I spotted on the back of the entry door a big flyer from Good Vibrations, the adult toy store owned and run by a women's cooperative, announcing a sale on various toys and a further notation "discounts to fellow coopers". And I thought, "Yes, Virginia, you've come a long ways".