Until we have irascible old women, and spunky old men, we will never have equality between the sexes. When we have pretty men and handsome women, and it just means they are attractive, then we know we are equal.
When heterosexual men are plucky and petulant, then we may have equality.
As per usual, the Magna Carta, in its original reiterations, was only intended to apply to rich, white, aristocrats. (Barons were the equivalent of today's Dukes.) The main issue was that Robin Hood's Prince John became Bad King John. Bad King John started declaring Barons to be outlaws, and stealing* their land, because they were outlaws.
The original Magna Carta was denied, re-signed by John's son, and rewritten over the years. But it was the first time in recorded history that a document said that even the king needed to obey the law.
However, there is NOTHING in the US Constitution which declares that women are equal to men. That is why we wanted the Equal Rights Amendment. We were told that it was unnecessary, as the current law would protect us.
As we watch our equal right to control our own bodies be eroded again and again, we know that, once again, the Republicans LIED TO ALL OF US.
HAPPY 800 YEAR BIRTHDAY TO THE MAGNA CARTA!
* Bad King John called it "seizing" land. Now it is called "asset forfeiture".
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