Last week one of my art teachers suggested I 'dial down the feminism.' Today I showed him...

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43. I wish I could remember where I read it -- Schlafly largely responsible for defeating ERA.

Not that long ago (it doesn't take me long to forget sources, sometimes) I read a rather lengthy account of everything that PS did to encourage people to vote against ratifying the ERA. It made the pretty convincing argument that she alone carried more responsiblilty for ERA's failure to be ratified than any other person or organization. The irony was that she wasn't much of a stay-at-home mom herself, but that was the ideal she claimed to be defending. She worked so tirelessly for ERA's defeat it's hard to understand what drove her. Only religious dogma seems to be able to get RWNJs to make that kind of effort.