Equal rights amendment

63daddy · 2025-03-06T22:49:05+00:00

A law is only as good as its enforcement and future rulings.

Consider that title IX fairly clearly states that colleges shall not discriminate on the basis of sex yet the enforcement of this is fairly one-sided. It’s not OK for more men to go into athletics, but it’s fine for women to monopolize aerobics, Pilates, yoga, etc. This legislation which is supposed to combat discrimination is now used to justify accused men being denied due process procedures.

Similarly, many practices and laws (many of which discriminate against men) clearly violate the non-discrimination clause of the 14th amendment, yet they continue largely unchallenged.

While I would love to see the equal rights amendment passed, my feeling is it would be much the same. Consider that for much of the time it was being pushed, it included the Hayden rider which made it one-sided, allowing discrimination against men, so it wasn’t really about quality, it was about outlawing discrimination against women only.

Vegetable_Ad1732 · 2025-03-07T02:57:49+00:00

I doubt it would do much for men, as some here have already said.

STEM_forever · 2025-03-06T22:50:15+00:00

Being an egalitarian I support it. Women's privileges needs to be checked.

dresh · 2025-03-06T22:53:34+00:00

I am in favor of it, but I am not holding my breath that these issue would be included.

keine257 · 2025-03-06T23:44:06+00:00

No there will be some clause that allows discrimination against men if passed.

CarHungry · 2025-03-07T04:41:43+00:00

I read this title wrong for a second. We already have an equal protections clause in the constitution, so it'd potentially do more damage than good to amend it.

hendrixski · 2025-03-07T12:30:02+00:00

Yes, I believe the equal rights amendment would be a HUGE step towards equality for men and boys. That would include multiple laws that average men will bring to court. Including lawsuits about gender discrimination in family court.

There is a limit however: the constitution mostly applies to criminal law and much of civil law and family law doesn't have to adhere due to various technicalities (for example, the rights of the accused don't matter if you're not technically accused you're just divorced, etc.).

Golden-Grate-242 · 2025-03-10T00:34:38+00:00

I am not opposed to ERA in principle. If it means that men and women need to be treated EQUALLY UNDER THE LAW I think that would be good.

AcademicPollution631 · 2025-03-06T22:22:06+00:00

I'm in favor of it

Title	Equal rights amendment
Author	Acceptable_Dirt_228
Upvotes	15
Comments	14
Date	March 6, 2025 9:45 PM UTC (1 year ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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