It's a bit like adding a pinch of carbon to a batch of molten iron, or a bit more like adding water to a cement/aggregate mixture.
What will emerge from the mix will be orders of magnitude greater than what it was. If it's tended properly.
And the comparisons both hold doubly true, for the tending can be bitter work. Just as it is right now with us.
The "Roberts Five" of our Supreme Court have shown, with their ruling on Burwell vs Hobby Lobby, that they are allied with the old male guard. They've shown that they believe that males are and should remain in charge of women's sexuality, or at the very least that they stand with those who do.
But their decision was rooted in fear. Not "closely-held beliefs", and certainly not the principles embodied in our Constitution.
FEAR
Almost anywhere on earth you can hear it rumbling. Of course, sometimes it's blaring in your ears. It's fear all the same. For, quite suddenly, a crushing weight has been released, and half our species has departed a bondage that probably goes all the way back to our beginnings on the African plain. Men were the ones in charge, by way of both biology and brutality.
Now the field is level.
Equilibrium is a long ways off yet, for a great many men are not at all pleased and are fighting like mad, and they have been every step of the way. For decades.
The thing is, they have already lost. Humanity will never again be what it was, and though the mixing and casting of our sexy lot will be hard work, the humanity that emerges will be a thousand times what we are now.
In the meantime, of course, we have to get the mix right. We have to overcome their current play.
I think they have only one card left.
In a word: chaos