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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-09 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2380 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2380 ⌋

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Re: The Equal Rights Amendment

(Anonymous) 2013-07-09 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the notion is, in theory, that's quite true, and the existing text of the Constitution should make women the legal equals of men in all ways. And yet... here we are. In practice, it clearly falls short, so rather than just toss up our hands and surrender to the imperfection of the system, we try to do more, to make it more explicit, to make it harder to avoid or work around, to address specific issues that are being neglected or ignored, in the hope that it will accomplish what should have already been the case but isn't.

Re: The Equal Rights Amendment

(Anonymous) 2013-07-09 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This.

Justice may be blind, but human nature is not. Sometimes we have to put laws in place in order to make up for discrimination, because people won't stop shitting on people they think are "lesser" unless they're explicitly told they can't.

IMO, people who claim that these sorts of explicit non-discrimination laws are some sort of "special treatment" really don't understand what's going on - the laws are trying to level a playing field that's been made crooked by society.