Women in America are immune to the enormity of their own oppression.
Until the Equal Rights Amendment passes, women are not equal under the constitution. Until ERA passes, all women in America will remain second-class citizens without equal rights. (equalrightsamendment.org)
Imagine an America upon waking up and realizing that the ERA had passed. Psychologically, this is what needs to happen before all other issues are addressed. This needs to be at the top of the national agenda. Women are not equal in America and consciously/unconsciously, they live with that daily.
The entire focus of the Women’s March nationwide should be on passing ERA. There are only two more states needed to ratify and pass ERA.Â
Fifty-four percent of white educated women voted for Donald Trump, sealing their second class victim status for at least another four years, if not eight. Women of color did not. I see women of color currently holding enormous power to change the status of women in America.Â
If women of color can get two more states to ratify ERA, they will earn the credit for achieving an unprecedented historical event of enormous magnitude, changing the status of women in America to equal—a feat white women were unable to accomplish for decades, even with all of their protection and privilege.
No one wins in a patriarchal world out of balance—not men, not women.
Diane Elizabeth Huntington Loring