[chajin]

In effect, she effectively prevented the amendment that would have made the bias men face in family courts and criminal courts unconstitutional.

It would have been "interpreted" by SCOTUS at some point to allow the biases, because as Orwell put it, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

It would have been "interpreted" by SCOTUS at some point to allow the biases

At the time I would have thought that men would organize to demand change based on the ERA, but four decades of watching men spend billions a year on prostitution and next to nothing fighting for their rights has answered that.

because as Orwell put it, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

The animals that are willing to fight for their equal rights are definitely more equal than those that won't.

And none of this changes the fact that the STOP ERA movement was intended to preserve those biases.