Rejoice! We have equal rights ...
'cause Robert Bork said so.
Well, praise the lord! According to Mitt Romney's legal adviser Robert Bork—yes,
that Robert Bork—women have
equality at last:
How about the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment? Does he still think it shouldn’t apply to women?
“Yeah,” he answers. “I think I feel justified by the fact ever since then, the Equal Protection Clause kept expanding in ways that cannot be justified historically, grammatically, or any other way. Women are a majority of the population now—a majority in university classrooms and a majority in all kinds of contexts. It seems to me silly to say, ‘Gee, they’re discriminated against and we need to do something about it.’ They aren’t discriminated against anymore.”
So there you have it. Women are a majority of the population, and that proves just how silly it is to even suggest that the majority of the population still experiences any discrimination whatsoever. Like, for example, the wage gap in nearly every occupation. But nah, that's all a thing of the past, and if there's one thing Romney's legal adviser thinks we should all understand, it's that chicks totally have it easy now because they go to college and stuff—even though they still make less than their male peers when they graduate.
Or how there's a certain political party that is addicted to passing bills to restrict women's access to health care—even if it means letting women die.
And of course you never, ever see people treating women like they are the property of their husband. Especially not people named Mitt Romney.
Oh, but it's "silly" to bring that up, isn't it? It's "silly" to suggest that women still suffer discrimination in this country. And ungrammatical. And besides, all that discrimination and unequal rights stuff is in the past, so really, women should just stop bringing up all that silliness and be grateful they don't need any Constitutional protection against discrimination. Because Robert Bork said so.
This guy's such a legal genius, maybe he should be on the Supreme Court.
(h/t Think Progress)