What were they thinking?

I was thinking about Woman's Lib the other day. Okay, I am too young to really remember the "golden age" of woman's liberation; I actually would have loved to grow up in the 1970s, mostly for the wardrobe.

To be more precise, I was thinking about Woman's Lib protesting. This had to do with a discussion my hubbie and I had concerning shaving – but I digress, what I really want to talk about today is protesting in the late 60's and early 70's. But before I do, I have to make two caveats:
(1) I am not really big on research, so anything I say in this blog is something that I think I have heard. But I have not verified it, and I trust that if you are reading this blog, you will similarly just trust me and not research the topic. Hey, I was a History Major at one time. How about them credentials?
(2) Please don't complain to me if I say something that insults Woman's Lib. I like what women were trying to do – heck, I probably owe them for helping to narrow the gender equity gap (instead of making 67 cents to the dollar for equal work, I now make about 78 cents to the dollar as compared to a man). And I have often wondered about how they know it is equal work. Men, try wearing panty hose in a meeting in Georgia in the summer. Heck, try finding your one good pair of hose to put on for the meeting. Equal work, my arse. I will move boxes, change laser cartridges, etc., if I don’t have to wear hose. Again, I digress.

Here is my beef with the women's liberation movement of the 1960's – what were you thinking with your protesting techniques. Okay, we women want this, that, and the other thing, and to protest, we are going to burn our bras and go braless. Okay, men, I was not around at the time, but I am imagining men were thinking, "look at 'em bounce" or "I see nips." They were not thinking, "Hmmmm, now we need to take women seriously.

Maybe it was the pot people were smoking – try reasoning with a pot-smoker, and you can see my point. I don't know. All I know is that going braless is not the way to protest against the male establishment.

Consider this – women got the right to vote in 1920 (again, no research here, but let's guess it was the 19th amendment). This was a huge obstacle. Again, I was not around to witness this (and I have not read this either), but here is my theory – women pressured their husbands to support this. And how might a woman pressure their hubbie? Hmmmmm. No support, no nookie. Again, guesswork, but men probably thought "what will my support do for this?" and "I want some." So women got the right to vote.

Fast forward to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment that was never ratified. Women thought, we will pressure men by not wearing bras. Come on ladies, what were you thinking? Men were benefiting from the "sexual liberation" or women and we protest by showing our titties.