Leave it to the feministas at the National Organization for Women: they sure engage in some classy humor.

You’ll recall that in her response to the State of the Union address, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst related a memory of growing up in rural Iowa:

“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”

Well, the secretary of the Florida chapter of NOW found that little anecdote just HILARIOUS! A real knee slapper! Those Iowa rubes! Bread bags on kids’ feet — how uncool is that!

So this singularly unattractive woman decided to don some bread bags of her own just for mockery and giggles.

Not everyone took the cheap shot. Peggy Noonan, writing in a more thoughtful frame of mind, noted that the use of bread bags as shoe coverings is from not-so-long-ago:

“I liked what Ernst said because it was real. And it reminded me of the old days.

There are a lot of Americans, and most of them seem to be on social media, who do not know some essentials about their country, but this is the way it was in America once, only 40 and 50 years ago:

America had less then. Americans had less.”