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In reply to the discussion: The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It's Only Been 96 Years. [View all]MuseRider
(34,111 posts)Yeh, I know, emotional women should not be in charge of anything including their own bodies.
I grew up in an extremely male oriented home with an abusive father AND mother who wanted to always be "his" girl. My brothers lives took off. I worked really hard to get the little I was able to get. I was only allowed to go to college if I joined a sorority so I could meet a man to marry. They never expected me to stay in college. This attitude was common but mostly as just an attitude, my parents meant it and the fact that I was continually engaged only to break it off never crossed their mind as anything more than my being a horrible prospect for a wife. I got the education I wanted that way.
No sports so I would not get muscles....you all know the drill from back then. This was the 70's and I got the crap beat out of me for getting caught without a bra (if they had only known what else I was up to).
The very fact that this will not actually do a lot for me personally, physically as an older woman means nothing. The very fact that young women, girls, female babies can be looked at as more than something for others to use, LEGALLY looked at that way means more to me than I can ever express.
We are people, full human beings perfectly capable of doing what we need with our own bodies and minds and lives. Please let us live that way. <---I am feeling positive but wary.