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In reply to the discussion: The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It's Only Been 96 Years. [View all]ancianita
(36,060 posts)downside talk are the symptom of women living in that negative universe for centuries. And the affirmative action that pretends to solve it.
It's now time to balance out women's status under rule of law, now that men have tried everything else over centuries to justify their own privileged status.
The ERA, unlike "affirmative" action, could just as well affirm even more areas than ever before. Including equal pay, clubs, sports teams, military status, etc.
It depends on one's existing perspective about women, I think. Doubt, well founded, or imagined, still points to that perspective, one based on institutionalized, forced inferior status of half the nation.
Even affirmative action laws have to be enforced through courts, since discriminators won't admit to their illegal actions unless made to.
I'd prefer to think of the upsides.