It has been brought to my attention that I have been calling my mother a "first wave feminist," which would make her the contemporary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I’m wondering how many times I’ve made this gaffe, and what on earth I was thinking when I made it? I mean, she’s among the "first wave" of feminists I encountered, but most certainly a ninteen-seventies women’s movement woman my mother was. But what is she now, a post-second-wave feminist? And, come to think of it, am I a second generation American or third? Three of my four grandparents were from Russia. And how about that baby boomer stuff, I was born in 1964, the very last year of the boomers, and I just don’t want to be associate with those geezers. Can I call myself "Gen-X-minus-1"? So many questions.