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What an end-run around women's rights. I was active in 2nd Wave feminism decades ago and I would never in a billion years have guessed that the way men would end women's rights was by pretending to be us. A more OPPRESSED version of us.

I actually think that the opposite is going to happen, by which I mean that as Americans learn about what the gender movement is asking for, and especially if Lefty women scream bloody murder, politicians will be forced to back off. However, if the damage is already done...

The Equality Act is now in the Senate, so do you know when it will be voted on, as in, are there any rules as to how fast? How many votes need to pass?

It's been decades since I took Civics, but I keep reading that the Dems need 60 votes, but doesn't that depend on if the GOP filibusters - so what if the GOP doesn't filibuster?

I read somewhere just today (Ovarit?) that the Democrats are railroading the Equality Act through, so no changes and it will pass or fail as is. That, of course, could be speculation on someone else's part.

One of the things I just don't get is that there are many women from their mid-50s up who will not stand for this shit. Our life expectancy is 80 or so (or was) so we have plenty of time to cause a tremendous amount of trouble for the gender lobby.

When I tell friends my age about this, they immediately get the danger and start spreading the information around to other women who will be enraged. So do the Democrats/ gender lobby just think all of us hoary older feminists are going to die off soon enough to not thwart their sinister plans?

And, I saw some kind of survey or study, probably about six months ago, that found that the majority of radical feminists were under 40, with many in their early 20s. That could be because women my age and older don't (or didn't) call ourselves radical feminists. But there seem to be a lot of young rad fems, so the gender lobby is going to be waiting a long time for all of us to die off.

Anyway, thanks again! You really helped me with your clear, yet concise, explanation. I am sending it around.