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Your question is valid, Jessica; comfort indeed breeds complacency, but that's not all bad. Your cohort has benefited greatly from movements and legal challenges brought by your mothers and grandmothers, and the indignities you did not suffer afford you a deep sense of security in your rights and opportunities (not to mention safe, sterile abortions). Your forebears' storm-the-barricades protests resulted in the confident, educated, creative, and self-aware women of your generation. Lacking belly fire on issues you consider long-settled does not mean that you are a bunch of wimps, however. Boomers are entirely too invested in their own methods. You will fight your ideological battles in your own style, bringing cool-headed aptitude and intelligence to challenges that, inevitably, will need to be overcome.