The wheel turns. Just when women are saying they have "all the rights they need" we see it happen all over again.

Many of us started in the Civil Rights and anti-War Movement and let me recount a true story.

There was a 1960's meeting of men who were discussing how to deal with the war and the draft. The women were there to make sandwiches. I am not making this up. A few of them entered the conversation and one woman - who was destined to become a feminist leader of the 1960 - spoke to a point. "The men stopped and listened, but it was as if it had been a low flying jet." The minute she finished speaking, they went on as if the had said nothing.

That was the day she left the anti-War Movement and helped found Female Liberation.

It was Gandhi who was thrown off a train.

For some it will be what happened on Kos.

We all think we have reached the end of history and we are yanked back by the reality that the battle is not over. Media girl is right that -thank the Goddess! - there are men who are wonderful and decent and like women - but the declaration that a new day has dawned is premature.

Becoming radicalized happens at the oddest moments. Gandhi had all the rights he needed, right? I shall never forget the moment in the film, "Gandhi," where he protests, "But I have a ticket. A first class ticket," and yet he is tossed off the train.

Some time ago I post here on Media Girl about the red states not ratifying ERA. That ERA is not an issue. That ERA is not even needed. When we ask for equality, somehow it is because we "hate" men.

ERA is one issue women from almost all walks of life can agree upon, especially when we run into this sort of attitude.