“can you explain how women, who were an even smaller minority of legislators at the relevant time, enacted it into law in all 50 states?”
Okay, let’s keep things clear, now. Before, we were talking about “responsible for,” not “enacted.”
Have you heard the old saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world?”
Of the feminists of his day, Mark Twain remarked that he didn’t mind if they wanted to be equal to men, but he couldn’t understand why they wanted to give up all that power.
Women have always exercised a great deal of influence over events, and that influence was no less real for having been indirect. Bringing up the boys and arm-twisting the husbands has been shown to be quite effective.
If you want to talk about “enacted,” I would ask how many black congressmen and senators voted for the civil rights acts in 1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1991? It was a white majority that enacted those bills, and in the same way, it was feminists who have created today’s legal climate.
Of course, they often had to get the cooperation of men, but it was their agenda all the same, and the men who cooperated were traitors against the human race.
Let me see if I understand you. Legislatures composed overwhelmingly of men, elected by populations that were (let us suppose) divided 50/50 between the sexes, nonetheless have produced legislation for which women are responsible. Courts composed overwhelmingly of men have produced decisions for which women are responsible.
I’m missing the operative principle that conveys this incredible power over law-making and interpretation ... given that I can’t even get my husband and sons to put their clean laundry in their drawers.
Are you saying that the men in power have done all these erroneous things simply because they imagine that, in some way, it might get them consequence-free sex? And yet, that is *still* women’s responsibility?