Schlafly employed the same two tactics that conservatives always do when attacking equal rights. She reduced equal treatment to “same” treatment and fought most desperately over social equality instead of political or civil equality. This is what conservatives do. This is what they always do. Schlafly had a neat little twist—arguing that social inequality benefited women instead of harming them—but even that is not new. Conservatives love arguing that the people they oppress are well taken care of by the oppressors.
