I remember a young girl telling me, years ago, "how great it will be when ERA passes."
"You wasn't to be drafted and go fight in a war?"
That was the end of that.
Pretending there aren't ontological differences between the sexes has always been a leftist shibboleth. The reeaaalllly believe in that. I recently read a column by a crazy, loathsome ***** who bemoaned the fact that her young son was displaying signs of chivalry, complaining that this have him "extra" social rules to observe. How unfair, un-egalitarian, and feminists should oppose special treatment anyway, she whined.
Unfortunately, her side is winning the culture wars.
In another case, some crazed, leftist hippies garnered attention for having told no one the sex of their son or daughter. He/She had an androgynous name, and they dressed him/her in a sexless way. Only their doctor knew the child's sex. Even the grandparents didn't know. Their reasoning?
"You don't go up to people you meet and ask then what's between their legs."
In their dope-addled minds, that's the only difference between men and women--what's between their legs, and their son or daughter is going to pay the price for it in the coming years.