From Barricades to Blogs

As a young woman, I am happy and proud to call myself a feminist. That being said, I agree that the women's lib movement has changed from a large group of strong women unwilling to take no for an answer to apathetic young teens more concerned about makeup and clothes and their rights. I find it sad and disheartening. Who is to blame? It's hard to say, but I certainly believe that the shift back to traditional gender roles and abstinance-only education funded by our federal government is not helping.

When couched in terms of "Women need help. Women need to get together to address their problems" then the ERA will be doomed to fail. The majority of entering freshmen in college are women. Will the ERA mandate equal slots for boys? There was a time when women needed special protected status. That time is long past in America.

When couched in terms of "Women need help. Women need to get together to address their problems" then the ERA will be doomed to fail. The majority of entering freshmen in college are women. Will the ERA mandate equal slots for boys? There was a time when women needed special protected status. That time is long past in America.

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How many times do we have to correct this image of equality / Equal Rights Amendment that never did pass as being "as obsolete as bell-bottoms", as FL Governor Jeb Bush said and you have just repeated?

When are your reporters going to go at least to Google and not just to uniformed blogs to find out that the "women's movement" is not only alive and well in several states but is now a men's and women's and family and economy movement". Get with The Program, Newsweek. Time magazine got over that long ago, after their repeated fretting that Feminism is Dead. S

Saying so doesn't make it so, especially from those who just are living back in the 50's, blog or no blog.
Come to Florida and see that the heavy lifters of the re-ignited move to ratify Florida and two other states has real Fire-in-the-Belly elders like me who oversee Floirda's Equal Rights Alliance with nearly 295 000 supporters in 352 member-organizations; 88% of the public; 7 newspapers and all of Florida's county officials endorsing our effort!

I don't know what bloggers are doing besides sniping, but there's a world of College Students For ERA and national ERA organization, some who have forged on for ERA since it barely missed passing in 1982. Let me tell you, our college students and former-ERA igniters are no bra burners. They join me and the Alliance in around the year lobbying for Florida's required two bills to ratify the ERA. It is non-stop work. For those who go negative that ERA is symbolic, I ask, since when is being paid only 76% for the same or equal work that trivial? Ask an elderly woman who is the 1 of 7 who wind up in poverty because wages unfairly minimized her takehome, her Social Security and her pension. HOW "SYMBOLIC" IS THAT? And what about the fair-minded, caring fathers who cannot get child custody or some of whom get dunned for support payments that go for unreasonably expensive vacations, homes and cars.

Just ask how the economy would benefit from an Equal Rights Amendment that increases tax revenues, and reduces outflow from public assistance, never mind that it would boost the morale of 52% of the population. I can't speak for all women, of course, and not at all for men in this regard.

But, hey, stop trivializing our hard work to bring Florida out of the mental swamps and 'chads', and many American women and families out of depression.

An ERA in the Constitution holds much promise, is not dead, unless people subscribe to your funereal pall over the search for Equality for ALL.

Let's not continue to interview bloggers on any topic as if they knew the Facts. At least Google the rest of us, and go to www.RatifyERAflorida.net for The Real News on what's happening to ERA everywhere with surveys, legislation, blazing new strategies and re-ignited ERA stalwarts.

After all, the body of the Equal Rights Amendment's fine prose, "Equality under the law shall not be denied
by the United States or by any State on account of sex" just re

I am thankful that womens suffage came to bring us alot of things women need but at the sametime it gave us equality and we still get hurt in the schemes of life struggles. I am alittle old fashion and I still believe it is the man who should surport the wife. I also know we have a lot of mothers in the war who should be home carring for their families and not getting killed. That is apart of equality for the women of our times. Now women and girls want to do the samething as men and run wild leaving children if they even have them to care for themself. I will say this I have seen some men who are good child care takers and have taken the place of mothers. I believe this new generation of women are not looking to burn bras and being an ass, they want to be equal with there husbands where work and careing for a family and home are concern.