What's going on with the Equal Rights Amendment?

[Hekate]

5. I don't think the ERA would fulfill all our dreams, and here's why: we are not "the same" ...

Take health insurance companies. Well, take anything to do with health, including research. The medical community always used a male model. I could go into great detail, but suffice it to say that treating us the same as men and giving us the same insurance coverage as men left out a lot, and we got charged for the “extras,” such as everything to do with our reproductive systems. That’s what “the same as” means to me.

The ERA has always struck me as too simple by half. I don’t want to have womankind placed on a Procrustean Bed, where our uniquely female selves are reduced to a male model, and none of our society’s festering problems are actually dealt with.