CMV: I'm a man who finds MRA more irritating than respectworthy.

Just so you can ignore more evidence? Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription.

Praise the saints and hallelujah, it seems you finally decided to actually look for evidence of your assertions and found some!

But wait, did you read your source? Or did you just skip to the parts that you thought supported your worldview? Let's find out by delving in!

Why, look at that: feminist organizations were the ones that pushed for the amendment in the first place! Quick check, let's make sure this is a trustworthy source, yep and yep.. And 70% of the population supported it! Why, that's more than just the men: seems quite a lot of women did too.

Now what stopped it? Let's see... oh, shit, it looks like other women did. Maybe you're right...

...woah. What's this?

Many organizations, including the National Organization for Women (NOW), continue to work for an amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women.

And this here?

The leader of the Stop-ERA campaign was a career woman named Phyllis Schlafly. Despite her law degree, Schlafly glorified the traditional roles of American women. She heckled feminists by opening her speaking engagements with quips like "I'd like to thank my husband for letting me be here tonight." Schlafly argued that the ERA would bring many undesirable changes to American women.

And this?

Feminist groups maintained that a serious blow was struck toward the idea of gender equity in the United States. They also saw women divided against other women. Despite early gains by the feminist movement, the rise in social conservatism led Americans of both genders to draw limits on a constitutionally mandated equality between the sexes.

Why look at that... it wasn't feminists that stopped the equal draft at all. It was conservative women who favored the traditional gender roles.

Just because some women in that era behaved in an appalling manner does not mean all women are "thieves and cowards"; just that it's possible for a woman to be a thief and a coward. And that possibility is amplified by their "subversive power."

Absolutely. As we see however, it wasn't the feminists that did it: they were the ones that largely supported the amendment equalizing the draft.

You see how quickly things clear up when we actually look at evidence? I want to honestly thank you: I learned something when I expected I wouldn't :)

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