Your old man is wrong on this one. The ERA would eliminate the draft, not compel women to be drafted too.

At least at first.

Here's the elegant simplicity of the ERA.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

In a legal sense, the word abridge means curtail, or cut short. So with the passage of the ERA, men can file a class actuon suit against the federal government for abridginf their rights bqsed on gender if the govt doesn't scrap selective service.

Furthermore, it's a manosphere myth about women not supporting the ERA because they wantes to avoid the draft. A ridiculous one at that. In 1981, the Supreme Court ruled that a male-only draft was justified because women were excluded from combat jobs. But all combat jobs were opened to women in 2015. Congress followed that decision by including a requirement for women to register for the draft in initial versions of the 2016 NDAA. So, it's not entirely true that we can't be drafted. It's in a stste of limbo because of selective service.

But then, no man hss been drafted since Vietnam either. Pretty much my lifetimez and certainly yours. If a draft ever gets called again, you can bet a quick signature adds women to the draft. And the only women who are going to oppose it will be Fundie or Moms of Liberty types.

Lastly, women don't fear the draft like men do. It's not a boogeyman for us, so most of us would never fight against the ERA on those grounds. It wouldn't even occur to us.

Women aren't dolls. We're not all the same. Some women truly don't want equality. Some men do. All groups run the gamet on their thoughts and beliefs.