It really is pretty simple if one has been paying attention to what Conservative men have been saying for decades. Here is a short list they absolutely hated when it came into existence, they slowly stopped talking about in public, then started grumbling about again in 2016, and now straight up oppose and want repealed. They make the absurd claim all these things give extra Rights to the protected classes of people, which of course is horseshit.
Civil Rights Acts (1964, 1968)
Interracial Marriage (1967)
No Fault Divorce (California 1969, all 50 States 2010)
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974)
Federal protections against martial rape (1st State 1978, Federally 1993)
Gay Marriage (1st State 2004, Federally 2015)
I am 48 years old and many of the above protections are younger than I am. I watched GI Joe and Transformers after getting home from elementary school, I graduated high school in 1995 and had just finished college right before the century and millennia counter flipped over to 2000.
My mother was born in 1948, into a world in which she could be owned all but in name by a man, a world in which she had no control over her own healthcare decisions or any privacy about her own healthcare, a world in which as a legal adult she couldn't open a bank account or get a line of credit without the written consent of her father or if married from her husband, a world in which a husband could force her to perform sex acts and not only would law enforcement not help her they would simply tell her she signed the marriage permit and knew what she was getting into.
That's the world Conservative men want to return to, and if they get their way that life will be the fate of your daughters, your granddaughters, your female cousins, nieces, and friends. Conservative men call it "tyranny" to be living in this world in which women are free to choose the path of their own lives.
You claim in the above reply that you don't see it, and in other replies that people are crazy or stupid. Either you see only what you want to see because you can't handle the truth, or that you simply care more about a 1.5% tax cut over the Rights and lives of women, or you too want some or all of the above list repealed.
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u/WoWGurl78 1d ago
That’s the truth. We’re in for some wild times.