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I grew up in the era of Ms. magazine and Our Bodies Ourselves. In high school I subscribed to Off Our Backs after reading about it in Glamour. So it’s all the more disconcerting to me to be living in a time when LOLGOP can rightfully tweet “#nextGOPhearing: Should pregnant women be allowed to wear shoes in the kitchen?” Things might be different if we’d ever managed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”