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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]whathehell
(29,135 posts)a bit older...We were old enough to make a ruckus and we did..
I don't know your age, but I'm guessing the reason you "really, really, really didn't notice all this equality" is because you were either too young to recall the adult world prior to the late 60's and 70's, or you weren't, as a male, particularly interested.
The ERA failed on a national level, but succeeded in the states. Most, if not all of the states now have their own Equal Rights laws
"All these professional women do they really get equal pay"?..I don't know if they all really do, but the far larger point is that they now have legal standing to demand it, via the courts, if not elsewhere. My sister is a retired Superior Court Judge..She got paid nicely.
As for Trump and Dubya being "The quintessential
boomers", you MUST be kidding..By simple fact of their wealth, those two aren't typical of ANY generation! Try Obama, he's a Boomer, albeit a later one. Then again, you do seem to want to focus on the negative..You point out Trump and Bush's conservative SC appointees, but ignore Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer -- all Obama and Clinton appointees.. You also fail to give us credit for bringing down that bad, bad Vietnam War.
History has, relatively speaking, little to "forgive" us for, We're not perfect, but what generation was?..I'm proud to be a Boomer.