Ruth Bader Ginsburg is wrong about this

The kids are all right

Look, it's not all bad. While I was cowering under the covers fretting about the fate of democracy, a heroic band of teenage girls were heading into Washington to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Today, I wrote about their efforts to get the ERA into the Constitution.

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The ERA is a provision that simply states that the government cannot discriminate against someone on the basis of sex. Yet this very concept has absolutely freaked out men and some women for nearly a century.

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Supreme Court justice and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg even seemed to pooh-pooh the ERA earlier this week. But these young girls aren't taking no for answer.

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