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« A REBIRTH OF WONDER -- DEATH AND LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI | Main | BLAME IT ON THE ROLLING STONES »

March 07, 2007

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Vicki

My two sons-of-old-school feminist are doing their part to de-fang sexism at work and raising their kids (four girls and a boy between them). This is a good post.

Thank you.

Cynthia Samuels

I'll tell you the truth - there are great arguments for an Equal Rights Amendment but I'm with Liza - I'm not sure the pain is worth the gain. EXCEPT that legislation can be undone and even reversed by the courts. (Remember that awful Virginia domestic abuse case.) Only an ERA can stop that. How we get it is another matter entirely.

Liza

Becky, you make an interesting point. I do think we could make progress on some of the "bread and butter" issues like access to safe and affordable childcare by crossing some of the current political lines.

I'm not sure, though, that an ERA can avoid the "hot button" issues. Opponents would surely claim that it would guarantee the right to abortion and same-sex marriage. And some of us who would support it hope so too -- how can conflict be avoided then?

Remember, it was only 1992 when Iowa was voting on the ERA that Pat Robertson said passing it would encourage "women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." Patently ridiculous, and yet it worked.

Becky

Sadly, with all the talk of Third Wave, post-modern, etc.--the core objectives of Betty and the Second Wave feminists have not been achieved. Truthfully, we need an ERA--is there any effort at all in that direction--any political will?

While it is good that the movement has moved beyond those core values and matured--it would be so good to go back to the basics. On much of this if it was not necessary to make abortion rights a criteria for admission into the club--many many women could be brought together to at least eliminate institutional sexism.

~Becky

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