Phyllis Schlafly's Fear of Bathrooms Has Long Stopped Gay & Women's Rights Progress in America
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Bathroom Panic Has Long Stood in the Way of Equal Rights Huffington Post
Americans have been in 'bathroom panic' for decades. Phyllis Schlafly -- picutred above -- used threats of inevitable bathroom assaults or being spied on by those with eyes up to no good as a KEY reason to stop America's drive to the Equal Rights Amendment.
Millennials might think that the signing of a North Carolina law restricting local laws protecting LGBT rights might represent the first time bathroom panic raged among conservative politics, but Schlafly always introduced a fear of toilet danger into her anti-ERA testimony.
In my January 2013 editorial on the ERA, Schlafly is on video testifying before the Arkansas legislature, which voted down the ERA yet again in 2007.
The November 2015 election in Houston voted down a measure that barred discrimination on the basis of race, age, military status, disability and 11 other categories. Opponents became obsessed with bathroom panic and ran a brutal ad showing a man taking a young girl into a bathroom stall.
"Any man at any time could enter a woman's bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day," the narrator warned.
For more info on the North Carolina law -- also under discussion in Georgia with similar proposed legislation, read my recent Pro Ted Cruz Caitlyn Jenner Meets Hillary Clinton | Congressional Equality PAC Endorses Hillary.
The push for gender neutrality is far more aggressive in Europe than America, causing a backlash against "gender mainstreaming" or the erasing of lines between the sexes.
In Europe, creating a post-gender world one small rule at a time The Washington Post
Prime Minister Trudeau talks politics, fatherhood, and feminism with Vox
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that "If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have. Trudeau was interviewed by Vox senior producer and correspondent Elizabeth Plank in the premiere episode of new Vox video series '2016ish'.
The Canadian PM also lent his name to a series of feminist memes, including this divine message:
