American Women Are Worthless

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment)

I've been a woman for six years now, and a few simple truths have been revealed to me in that time:

1. If you are not overtly sexually attractive, you are worthless.
2. If you are unable to bear children, you are worthless.
3. If you are unwilling to be utterly dominated by men in all aspects of your life, you are worthless.
4. You have no identity apart from your present or future husband. Until then, you are merely a sex object.
5. Women have completely equal rights, insofar as men allow.

I concluded a long time ago that God does not make mistakes. On other venues, I have chronicled my journey into womanhood, and told of the inevitability of that transition: change or die. So, I concluded that God made me this way, and She must have had a very good reason. I'm beginning to see the first hints of what that mysterious purpose may be. Having been raised male, I received none of the cultural indoctrination which nearly all girls receive growing up, so I started my womanhood tabula rasa. Immediately I began to see how women are still looked down upon by men in modern society.

The Equal Rights Amendment, the text of which is included above, is deeply flawed. It is too vague, and has too many hidden impacts, and this is why it has not been ratified. CEDAW is better, its provisions spelled out very specifically, and its impacts carefully managed. However, it has not been ratified here in the States, either. As Arkansas assemblyman Patrick Briney made perfectly clear, it seems to be an utterly alien concept  that women should be afforded any consideration apart from the enumerated list above.

Here in Pennsylvania, there is nothing about who I am which impacts my rights. Article I, Section 26 of the Commonwealth's Constitution: "Neither the Commonwealth nor any political subdivision thereof shall deny to any person the enjoyment of any civil right, nor discriminate against any person in the exercise of any civil right." Any person. That means me. That means you. That means anyone who lives in, works in, or visits the Commonwealth. Your weird neighbor, the prostitute on the corner, the dozen illegals living in a studio apartment down the street. The Commonwealth affords the same basic human dignity to all of us, separate from race, gender, religious belief, national origin, or any other factor. One simple sentence, with two simple parts, covers a multitude of discriminatory practices. Not bad for a bunch of poor white farmers and coal miners. And many other States have similar wording in their constitutions. 

If the States can do it individually, then they can do it together. It's time to end discriminatory practices of all types.