🙃 Morning, CoSo.
I thought this was going to be a wee news brief for #OnlySky.
Instead I wrote about the ERA's latest death in a way that returns us to the whole history of its intersectionality with labour rights, and more.
I... think I'm getting a little fed up with the way that the serious socioeconomic issues facing the US (and world) are being hijacked by trans panic, queer panic, and general hostility toward women?
Just a lil' bit?
#Humanism #Politics
https://onlysky.media/mclark/what-a-failed-equal-rights-amendment-reveals-about-us-politics/
@MLClark
My father opposed the ERA, and when I questioned him about it as a child, he told me I didn't deserve to make as much money as men because I would become pregnant one day.
I love my dad. But that's a conversation that I will never forget. It was hurtful.
Now, I support my family and myself, and it's been a whole battle, still is.
@janallmac Yep. Those fatherly wounds will hit hard for life.
I'm sorry you didn't have an ally in your corner you could trust for all things. (I'm sorry so many of us did not.)
And I'm sorry it remains an uphill battle. Your struggle matters *so* very much. 💙
@MLClark
Welp, I am no longer a child, and I have learned so very much. Too much for one toot! 😂 Thank you, you too.