Right-wing icon Schlafly: Feminism is ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’
Right-wing icon Schlafly: Feminism is ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’
Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist who heads the Eagle Forum, hosted the right-wing conference How To Take Back America last weekend. Several GOP members of Congress attended the conference, and each paid their respects to Schlafly for her leadership in the conservative movement. Schlafly delivered several speeches and led a discussion advocating traditional roles for women as well as warning about the dangers of feminism and blasting single mothers:
I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today. [...] My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%. [...] I’m talking about drugs, sex, illegitimacy, drop outs, poor grades, run away, suicide, you name it, every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.
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At the closing ceremony, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) thanked Schlafly for her critical support of his candidacy last year, and Mike Huckabee stood by as she was presented with the “American Hero of the Century” award. “God bless you,” said Huckabee, “and God bless Phyllis Schlafly most of all.”
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OK Schlafly, then quit “analyzing” things, shut up and get back in the kitchen.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:33 amHow disgusting is all I can say about these folks. Do what you want, but leave the rest of us evolved people alone.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:34 amSchlafly couldn’t be where she is right now without standing on the shoulders of countless feminists who’ve made it possible for a woman to have a leadership role in society.
Nice way to repay that sacrifice…
September 29th, 2009 at 10:35 amTalk about being stuck in the 60s, this debate was over long ago.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:36 amRight-wing icon Schlafly: Feminism ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’
– - Yo Phyllis, don’t go out in public without your burka.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:36 amQuick! Republikants!! Rush to support Phyllis’ ridiculous stance, please! Pledge her your undying support forever!
Oh, and here’s another nail for your coffin, just in case you run out.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:36 amShe might enjoy life in George Bush’s Iraq. Feminism is pretty dead there.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:37 amI thought that old broad was dead.
Too bad she’s still ranting and raving about all of the ills of society and putting the blame squarely on the shoulders of the victims. Typical Republican rhetoric that never stands up to any scrutiny. Wouldn’t it be great to find that she and Huck were a thing at some point in the past?
September 29th, 2009 at 10:37 amJust one more example of ‘old white person’ living in the 19th and early 20th century. Does the GOP even know that we have moved into the 21st century?
September 29th, 2009 at 10:37 amWhat decade is she in?
Was this video clip from like….. 1981?
;)
Doesn’t she realize her time has passed ( not that she was ever in time)
September 29th, 2009 at 10:38 amSchlafly: I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today…every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.
– - Ummm, those are mutually exclusive, Phill.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:38 amSchafley is a wacko wingnut….she say’s “every social ill comes out of the fatherless home”
September 29th, 2009 at 10:39 amTell that to Susan Smith who was raped nightly by her father(the head of the local christian group) and then she drowned her two toddlers, letting them and her car roll into a lake because her boyfriend didn’t like kids. Oh yea she blamed the incident on a stranger “a black man”. There’s your christian, family values results. Oh yea…and Phyllis….what “turned” your own son gay?
Fatherless homes are because of feminist?
I can speak from personal experience that I wanted a level playing field so that I wouldn’t be as helpless as my mom was when my dad walked out.
This woman is a disgrace to her gender.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:40 amOh, Phyllis Schlafly, you old tart.
Well, if you really want women to go back to the kitchens and stay out of the work place, there are some major changes that have to be made, and you’re not going to like them.
First, we have to set regulations that require that CEOs make salaries comparable to what they made in the 1950s with relation to their workers. In other words, instead of making 400x what the workers make, they will have to make more like 20x what the workers make. This will free up additional money to be paid to the workers. This is necessary because it is impossible for the vast majority of people to get by on only one income (that’s why women work in the first place, lady).
The next thing you’re going to have to do is make abortions free for all and you’ll have to remove the social stigma from the procedure. This will prevent anyone becoming a single mother, as you so abhor. You can’t stop people from having sex, especially if women are devolved back to property with no rights, which will happen very quickly if we are relegated back to being second-class citizens. So, since women won’t have the right to say no, you’ll have to cut their babies out so you don’t have to support them.
Third, you’ll have to ensure that no child ever grows up without a father, which can only be accomplished two ways – assigned, prearranged marriage and criminalizing divorces. Granted, you will have generations of miserable, hateful people who are forced to remain in loveless marriages, only hoping that something happens to their spouse so the state can assign them a new spouse that will maybe be a little better, but that’s better than growing up in a home with just a single mom, right, lady?
Finally (there is actually more, but I’ll stop here). You’re going to have to make it illegal for girls to get an education. That’s the only way you’ll keep them barefoot and pregnant, submissive to their husbands, and without any desire for independence – to keep them stupid. Because that’s the only kind of woman that wants to be property and wants her fellow woman to be property – a stupid one.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:41 amThis woman is an affront to ALL woman. Now ‘Feminism’ is the new ‘Boogey Man’? Someone should tell Phyllis that Limpballs played this, and it fell flat.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:42 amRight-wing icon Schlafly: Feminism is ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’
Really?
“Feminism”?
I thought it was socialism.
Man, these wingnuts really need to get their talking points from the same page. Otherwise it gets pretty confusing, and I don’t know which direction to turn my rage.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:42 amParlezvous says:
I thought that old broad was dead.
Wait, after watching that video, you’re telling me that she walks among the living?
September 29th, 2009 at 10:42 amGet out!!!
I guess she doesn’t think of spousal abuse as a “social ill” then…
September 29th, 2009 at 10:43 amZombie lady says:
I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.
Wait! I thought PRESIDENT Obama and his socialistic Nazi health care reform was our most dangerous destructive force today.
I get so darned confused.
I do, however, like how she began here speech with “I submit”.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:45 amHow very 1950ish house wife of you, Zombie lady.
i would have thought people with those medievel ideas would have the good sense to keep them to themselves.
this is the face wearing the boot that’s on our neck. and some of us, it turns out, not only condone and approve of it, get pissed off when some of us try to get the boot off of our necks.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:45 amWait a moment, I thought the GAYS were the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.
These people fear working women and homosexuals more than terrorism, disease, and financial collapse?
Fear really is ingrained into the psyche of the reactionary right. Not all Republicans are this delusional, but these people definitely give the party a bad rep.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:46 amWhat do these Right-wingers have to say about their ‘Cover Girl’ Palin’s daughter,s choice NOT to marry Levy and bring up her child as a single parent? When my daughter decided to raise her child as a single parent, my mother and her Rightie friends were appalled! But Sarah’s daughter was championed as such a brave girl. What hypocrisy!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:47 amevery social ill comes out of the fatherless home
Where her children are concerned, I wonder what kinds of social illss befell them for being raised in a motherless home.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:48 amEvery ill comes out of the fatherless home.
Now she thinks she is the man of the house.
Schafly is a tired old act.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:48 amDoes anyone else see the similarity the “Christian-right” and “Islamic radicals” share essentially the same views? War with each other because of they feel threatened by each other’s religious views, women are second class and therefor should be subservient to men.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:48 amI ncoherent
C ancervative
O bsolete
N o!
Yep, she’s one of those.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:49 amOnly 5%? I must be doing something wrong . . .
September 29th, 2009 at 10:49 amSo the next target is single mothers because their feminism led to their condition. It’s never philandering husbands or men who won’t commit. And a woman who leaves an abusive husband so she and her children stop getting beat on is a feminist. What an idiot.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:50 amSounds like Ms Phyll is craving a little ‘home correction’.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:51 amAnother hallmark of movement conservatism:
“Always blame others.”
- Never accept any responsibility for your own actions that cause societal ills. It’s never bad parenting, extreme idealogical thinking, or counter-productive methods (such as abstinence-only programs) that could cause societal ills,…NO, NEVER, …it’s always the fault of the “other” people; those who aren’t white, those who are gay, or poor, or those who aren’t Christian, or the liberals, and now singel-parents, etc.
It’s lowest common-denominator baseline-conservative thinking. “It must be the fault of people who aren’t like me!…because I certainly could never have added to any of the problems in society!”
…and in the end, it does nothing to help any of those stated societal ills.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:51 amralph, I think we’re sharing thoughts now. We’re even now.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:51 amI’m not sure that “feminism” means what Schlafly thinks it means.
The concept of treating women as if they are normal human beings instead of chattel has very little to do with single motherhood.
Are deadbeat dads the result of feminism? That’s one helluva scapegoat. Would anyone really buy the idea of “I just couldn’t stick around and help raise my child — I couldn’t handle her feminism.”?
Furthermore, the “social ills” Schlafly describes aren’t limited to single-mother homes. And they certainly aren’t part of the “feminist agenda”.
Why has nobody caught on to the fact that this woman has essentially made her living by telling other women they shouldn’t have a right to make a living?
September 29th, 2009 at 10:53 amDidn’t these conservatards take us back far enough over the last 30 years.
They want to go back to fuedal times.
This is just another minority that they are alienating.
Carry on fools.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:53 amI may be a fool in saying this, but can’t we thank feminism for all of the good things that it has brought women? A voice for voting, equal rights, and increasing fairness in the working place?
Didn’t feminism lay the groundwork for the likes of Schlafly to have the right to speak her mind about feminism?
September 29th, 2009 at 10:58 amSchlafly may be on to something but not in the way she thinks. How many fatherless homes have Newt Gingrigh, Rudy Guiliani and Mark Sanford left in their wake? They certainly personify “social ill”, any way you want to cut it.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:58 amAlways sticking their words into peoples mouths that arent around.
Lets try on some of Schaflys schtick. If there is no father in the house your child will be a drug addict. Huh. Im not pointing any fingers here but I am glancing in the direction of Beck and El Rushbo.
Schaflys schtlogic is that when there is no man in the house…then, by GOD, its not the man being absent, its the mother being present that causes drug addictions!
So, dont run home mothers, run off to work so your kids dont grow up like those mammas boys drug addicts The Truth Detector and The Rodeo Clown.
/Snarkerer
September 29th, 2009 at 10:58 amLet Phyllis and the Righties spew their venom at women. They live in a dream world. Do any of these people worry about bills? Do they have to work to support their families? Do they have to worry about Health care? Millions of women are forced to work to support their families. Many would like to stay home to care for their children but they can’t afford to do so. Phyllis and her Righty friends are turning off an entire generation of young women. Good luck with that.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:58 amOh, and what else Phyllis??
Right, feminists caused malaria and dysentary and other major diseases too??? and the drowning of New Orleans?? Dead kittens, no?!
thanks for the insights!
BTW, how exactly are a fatherless home and feminism the same thing??
September 29th, 2009 at 10:58 amHomerSexual says:
Only 5%? I must be doing something wrong . . .
Well, eventually the right will find something to blame on teh gays!
Right now, I’m thinking the massive cold front that is now hitting the Midwest is probably due to Iowa’s same sex marriage amendment.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:59 amJust sayin’…
I do and I think it’s a point that isn’t emphasized enough. The ethos and goals of the radical Christian right has a great deal in common with the ethos and goals of radical Islamists: Women should be second class citizens, gays and lesbians should be hated, religion should have say in affairs of state, etc.
While there are differences between them, there are far more similarities. And the most significant of their differences may be simply which religion they think should reign supreme.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:59 amPhyllis,
why did you support Sarah Failin for VP? She really needs to stay home and take care of her family.
You might also consider adopting some minority babies and raise them to be good responsible citizens, BTW shut the F*** up!
Can you say hyporcrit?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:00 amI’m just agog that these people still exist. I thought over the last thirty years that they had been debunked and gave up with such insanity. It turns out that the entire time we thought the world got better, the racists and sexists and warmongers were just quietly living among us, waiting for their chance to start up again..
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benji85 says:
Does anyone else see the similarity the “Christian-right” and “Islamic radicals” share essentially the same views?
The battle lines aren’t between Christianity vs. Islam. The battle lines are between reason (both here and there) vs. insanity (both here and there).
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missmolly says:
Why has nobody caught on to the fact that this woman has essentially made her living by telling other women they shouldn’t have a right to make a living?
Exactly my point. Nobody should listen to anybody who advocates that nobody should listen to the group of which they are a member.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:00 amirony, eh?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:04 amThese Repugs make me laugh. They don’t have a clue do they? The Righite Guys (like Huckabee) Still rue the day when women were allowed to vote. As for Phyllis, Who knows what her problem is.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:04 amDepending on the time of day, the most destructive force in society is either the feminists, the gays, the liberals, the socialists, the government, or the illegals.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:05 amPhyllis Diller would mop the floor with this Phyllis, so to speak.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:05 amPerry@45, That’s a lot of ‘Boogey Men’.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:06 amSuch a black mark for St. Louis!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:06 amThe world needs more home schooled teachers pets. Mrs Kravitz with a skitzoid little shit hiding behind her shrimp boat legs.
Cause, yanno, tats what I am getting from reading Schafly
September 29th, 2009 at 11:07 amRemember that famous commercial about a father asking his son why he was caught with drugs? About how the son ended up shouting at his father, “You! I learned it by watching you!”?
I believe that is, although fictional and in the past, an example of a social problem coming from a home with a father. Let’s not forget that irresponsible fathers have their own stamp on social problems.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:07 amFred says:
Purple State says:
Didn’t feminism lay the groundwork for the likes of Schlafly to have the right to speak her mind about feminism?
irony, eh?
Agree with me, much? LOL! Shocker!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:08 amWell, when my husband left me with two kids I worked two jobs to support them. So, according to Phyliss, this was a bad thing? Nice. Thanks for the support, and by the way, neither one of them are drug addicts or drop outs.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:08 amgeez, which “ism” will send the right wingers into a panic tomorrow?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:09 am#24 missmolly
September 29th, 2009 at 11:10 amWell said.
I swear – the GOP has bread the irony gene right out of their systems. There’s no other way to explain some of the things they say and do. Seriously!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am“My analysis is…”
Read: “According to the numbers I just pulled out of my ass…”
Quite the bell curve there – No other threats? Just those two? Feminism and Homosexuality? Seems a bit skewed to me…
September 29th, 2009 at 11:12 amAh yes, Freedom’s on the march! What is wrong with these Republicans?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:13 amlarkohio, thank you for being a good mother to your kids. I wish your husband was as good a father.
An important point, let’s not blame the mother for being a single mother in some of these cases. Feminism is not the only reason single mothers have chosen to raise their children, and I doubt that is the main reason.
In my opinion, families without love and communication are the main reason for social blights, and that is independent of feminism.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am2 questions for Ms Schlafly-
September 29th, 2009 at 11:16 amYou have had a career as a lawyer and political activist. Why shouldn’t other women have careers?
How do you feel about the fact that your son is gay and do you subscribe to the hypothesis that overbearing mothers cause their sons to become homosexual?
Orly Taitz. You get home right now. Phyllis said so. Git.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:18 amOMG – another “this-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-we-have-ever-faced” issue?
I thought it was the gay rights/gay marriage thing. Or the “Obama is coming to get my guns” thing. Or the global climate change hoax thing. Or maybe it was the Democratic led-Socialist-Marxist-Communist-Nazi take over of the (fill in the blank industry of the week) thing.
What is it with these kooks that everything is polarized to be the worst-thing-ever?
Shouldn’t we be dead already with all these worst-ever predicaments we’ve had since January 20th?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:19 amThey’re against the rigths of all minorities, think the 1° amendment is a exclusive rigth for them (try to see , and no one else, call for the use of extreme force against anyone who break the law (of course, when the one is not a white-male-christian), call for the death of the people who disagree with then,…
And after that, the democrats are the nazists?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:19 amAnn Hoeltar. You too. Feminazi. Be gone. Vamoose.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:19 amhey Ms Schlafly — be a real role model. stay home. maybe take up knitting or something…winter is just around the corner. we could all use scarves, mittens, and nice hat — maybe with a big bouncy pompom on top.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:20 amI bet prisons, mental wards, battered women’s shelters and a variety of 12-step programs are full of people who “benefited” from a a 2-parent household where the father was some combination of alcoholic, drug addict, abuser (sexual, physical or emotional), adulterer, etc.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:22 amWho listens to that shriveled up old hag anyway? Time for granny to retire. How old is she,like 75?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am“The” gays? “The” gays? My god, this woman is SICK.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:26 amHow on Earth do Republican’s take a shit when their a-holes are constantly tied up in knots?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:27 amThe only people that I know that don’t think a woman should have the choice of a career or staying at home to raise the kids or the opportunity to do both are religious zealots and Southern Baptists and troglodytes.
Feminism is far from the social ill that this woman purports it to be. Because of the strides that women pushed for in the workplace such as flex time, family leave and other benefits for the FAMILY, men have also benefitted from these changes. Men and women are both allowed the opportunity to spend more time with their families instead of slaving away at the office never knowing their children.
How many men of the last generation can say that they have a personal relationship with their children and take an active role in their upbringing?
For Schlafly to blame societal ills on feminism is simplistic and backward-thinking at best.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:28 amWhat is up with these Repug broads? They all start to turn into Margaret Thacther/Harriet Myers. You know, the ‘School Marm’ look. LOL! First these women look psyhcotic, ala, Michelle Bachman and Michelle Malkin then they turn into Barbara Bush. Too funny.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am2 Points:
1. every social ill comes out of the need of people like Schlafly to interfere, condemn and dictate how people should live in their homes.
2. Single Parents May Do as Well as Two: Study
September 29th, 2009 at 11:30 amShe’s who Texas wants their schoolkids to know more about.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:33 amit’s the Feminists, no wait it’s abortion drs, no wait its liberals, no wait its the gays, no wait…I forgot…who is it again thats so detrimental?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:34 amIt’s so telling that Huckabee praises this crazed woman….have you met or seen Huckabee’s wife? She hasn’t left the 50’s. This is the conservative movement folks…if these ppl get back into power, I would say goodbye to any hope for America that is based in reality
I think they should know more about her…and the rest of the reightwing…as long as it’s the truth, and while they’re at it, they should be teaching the kids our nations real history, not some sanitized cheerleading fantasy.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:35 amRepublican’s thrive on fear.
Fear is based in ignorance and lack of understanding, therefore, Republican’s are stupid and uncaring.
Irony is often based on humor.
The Republican brain simply can NOT process humor, therefore, irony is totally lost on them.
Hypocrisy is based on lying.
When you combine stupidity, lack of funny-bone and lying, you make hypocrites.
Republican’s are vile, stupid, humorless beings (see above), therefore, they spout hypocrisy.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:36 amJoan Rivers should kick this woman’s backside.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:39 amSchlafly must have been outraged when Sarah Palin called herself a feminist in September 2008!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185H2X1dNZI
I’ll bet Phyllis was pig biting mad about Palin having a job and looking for a new job</strong> where she’d be above a whole bunch of men, instead of in the kitchen where every woman belongs, right?
And Phyliss must have been apoplectic about the sexy sexing of her sexed-up daughter too!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/schlafly-chides.html
September 29th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I never understood why Phyllis, rather than her husband, did the speaking for her family. Her voicing her opinion seems rather feministic to me.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:41 amevery social ill comes out of the fatherless home.
Even incest? She’s a loon.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am“…every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
One can only surmise, then, that Schlafly comes from that fatherless home. And “American Hero of the Century”???? Only Repubs can can create ridiculous hyperbole like that, then turn around & give to someone so completely undeserving.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:47 amI am trying my hardest to summon some good old fashioned Buddhist compassion for this bick sitch, but just can’t seem to overcome her hideous aura…
September 29th, 2009 at 11:48 amI once worked with her son, he was raised by the maid. I am not making this up. He was an intelligent guy but had incredibly poor social skills and personal grooming habits. Even as a computer geek he stood out as strange. She certainly never practiced what she preached.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am“every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
Although a home without 2 parents is likely to have a lower income and thus lead to poverty which leads to lack of healthcare, drug use, lack of educataional achievement, etc.
To prove her point, she would have to show that such things do not exist in 2 parent, opposite-sex, households.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am“every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
Well, wouldn’t a homosexual marriage household have 2 fathers ? (or 2 mothers, depending)
So wouldn’t that be a good thing by her words ?
September 29th, 2009 at 11:59 amConservatism is ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’
There, that was easy to correct.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:00 pmSchlaffley’s son John grew up into a lawyer who has successfully infiltrated the pink team.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm“Every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
The GOP came out of fatherless home? Who knew?
September 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pmSeriously………… is this a joke?????? Are these people TRYING to finish off the Republican Party? I mean, I have no problem with that at all, it just seems too easy to be real! Let me see if I understand this correctly:
They have a BIG tent strategy, just no room for, gays, feminists, blacks, yellows, tans, reds, atheists, pacifist’s, evolutionists, scientist’s artist’s organizers, equal right’s people, with severe aversion to people with reasonable views, common sense attitudes towards people with guns showing up to political events, people that care about people OVER corporate greed,
I could go on and on but I think Ive made my point
September 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm.
Self loathing at play with this Phyllis Schlafly…
… I’m just saying.
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September 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm.
Did she mention the “barefoot and pregnant” part?
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September 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pmIf I were going to “attack marriage”, I’d probably use free drink specials and hot models, rather than gay people and single parents.
Phyllis must think her “foes” are very bad strategists.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:30 pmJust in case Schlafly is right I think she ought to be chained in her kitchen without a microphone. Better to be safe.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pmShe certainly never practiced what she preached.
Of course not, she wouldnt be out selling crummy books and making hypocritical speeches if she was. BTW how big was the kids Cheeto addiction bill?
September 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pmThis despicble, creepy woman made me realize I was a feminist before I had ever heard the term. She is an opportunistic hypocrite in a skirt. She worked all through her life of privilege, but decried women who had to work in their lives as the unprivileged. She assailed gays mercilessly until her own son was outed. She is an embarrassment to women everywhere.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:57 pmPhyllis Schlafly has feminism to thank for saving her from the dustbin of history.
Thanks to feminism, her name will live forever in infamy, as the Self-Hating Woman-in-Chief, who did everything in her power to deny every woman equal rights with men. Everything.
Let’s start a pool: When’s this lady going to die, finally? Shee, she was an old crotchety b*tch in the 70s, for crissake.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:57 pmThe reich is getting pretty desperate when they have to drag shitfly out of the attic to play…I thought we quieted her in the 50’s & 60’s..Jeebos this is so sad, this is all they have as tool’s…Hummm, moving right along..Blessings
September 29th, 2009 at 12:59 pmFrom the article:
Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist who heads the Eagle Forum
Can anyone say hypocrite? Why isn’t she at home making beds and baking bread instead of out in public telling lies?
September 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pmMike Huckabee stood by as she was presented with the “American Hero of the Century” award.
And which century exactly is that? The one that ended almost 9 years ago or the one we are in that has 91 years left in it?
September 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pmhar5125 says:
And which century exactly is that? The one that ended almost 9 years ago or the one we are in that has 91 years left in it?
Neither – it’s the 1800’s.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pmWhat struck me immediately was the image of the very small, old, white audience seen in the mirrored background that was listening to this tripe. She is the fossilized voice of hateful ignorance speaking to an ever dwindling audience of racist bigots. Hopefully by nature and natural selection they will ultimately die out or at least inbreed themselves into irrelevant stupidity.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pmMany Republicans want to return to the days of slavery in America. Others want to return to the days of the Robber Barons. Schlafly wants to return to the time in America where they burned witches. What an evil woman.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pmLL at #…102 says: very small, old, white audience seen in the mirrored background that was listening to this tripe…
That’s her peer group — persons younger wouldn’t know who she is, much less care, and if they accidentally walked in on her speech, they’d be laughing themselves silly at the old hag.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pmTo Phyllis Schlafly, the b!tch who put her fat ass in the way of equal rights for all women, and continues to peddle her filthy philosophy to morons who will listen, I give a heart-felt…
F UCK YOU.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pmWait a minute – didn’t the republicans embrace feminism for about 2 weeks while Palin was in the game? Just shows that all these “social ills” are just balls to bounce around for political maneuvering. Heh, and the sheep fall for it every time!
I just needed my laugh for the day, and this was it! Thanks.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:34 pmIs Phyllis Schafly and Sarah Palin, related? Must be since they both talk out of the you know what.
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she ain’t dead yet, the old beyotch?
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“My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country”
anyone point out to the old beyotch her own flesh and blood, her son is part of the 5% of marriage wreckers in this country? she ought to be real proud putting her son out there like that.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:44 pmMicif says:
I am not going to tell you to go f—k yourself…
Translation: “only female politicians that I approve of get to have feminism.”
September 29th, 2009 at 4:06 pmThis just in: Old woman yells at cloud.
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goldenguardian86
Just shut up. You’ve typed more than anyone else on this board and still managed to say nothing. You are a waste of time and reply-section-real-estate. All you managed to do was act like it’s okay that this stupid c-word gets up and talks down about the very movement that allows her to get up and talk down about it, spews hypocrisy all over a bunch of bigoted blue-hairs that live in the delusion of “better times” doing nothing more than sucking up the oxygen for all of us still-useful people. She disrespects and condemns everything that has been gained for women in the past century, and she’s an idiot to boot.
I conclude by offering you one simple statement. Take it as you will:
September 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pmBite me on the big, white, female ass.
Yo! Phyllis!
Just saw your face at the Forum. It’s been years. Impressive! You look just like you. Natural. Natural for you in any case. Really.
My compliments to your embalmer.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pmI am married, my kids have a Dad, but he is disabled and unable to work. I work and support us all, because of feminism I was able to go to college, graduate school, get a PhD and become an engineer. My two kids have two parents and are doing great. We are not on welfare, drugs, alcohol, don’t smoke, go to church, give to charity, try to reduce our carbon emissions and live the best we can. What part of this is it that Shafly objects to?
September 29th, 2009 at 5:51 pmSNL material here.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:07 pmRo gg86,
Your posts are so full of inaccurate, ignorant cliches that it’s not worth my time to refute them all. However, in regard to Sarah Palin, I must say that I heard and read considerable criticism of her but never that she “is not a real woman.” She was criticized for her ignorance, arrogance, and hypocrisy (such as advocating “abstinence only” education while having an unwed pregnant teenage daughter) not for a lack of feminine qualities, and it was widely pointed out that there were more qualified Republican women such as Senators Olympia Snowe, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Susan Collins for McCain to have chosen from.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pmFinally, if you are going to defend Schafly, you might learn to spell her family name correctly. But obviously you haven’t even considered that she is the biggest hypocrite of all: a woman with a law degree, who has been in public for decades advocating against equal rights for women instead of staying home and taking care of the family, as she thinks other females should do. According to her kind of rightwing “logic,” maybe that’s why one of her sons turned out gay.
Finally, I will add a touch of accuracy to one of your several off-kilter claims:
With current Victoria Secret commercials, low standard TV, apathy, and celebrities of coarse(SIC), Republican Governors who travel to Argentina to commit adultery, and Republican Senators/Congressmen who have sex with their female staff, abstinence isn’t going to be as effective as it could be
1 thru 34… shut up and go get me a beer.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:18 pmGiving speeches that make no sense….so easy a cavewoman can do it.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pmgolden guardian86, I’m not going to insult you or anything like that but I think you made the quintessential argument against abstinence in your own argument that abstinence can work.
You liberals really got a thing with sex. If you were bees it would be your honey. Abstinence works if the public would give it a fair shot. With current Victoria Secret commercials, low standard TV, apathy, and celebrities of coarse abstinence isn’t going to be as effective as it could be. Use your brain for crying out loud. If you tell a kid not to touch a hot pot you know he/she is going to want to do it all the more.
That is the problem, sex is a natural thing that you are trying to fight against and you make it worse when you tell people to avoid it rather than telling them responsible ways of keeping themselves safe from disease and avoiding pregnancy. I have met people who grew up in the church who end up being the most promiscuous males and females. It is better to teach people to be responsible rather than teach them to avoid sex because the moment they give in, they act like there is no more tomorrow.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:29 pmSchlafly’s bee-hive hairdo is the most destructive thing to marriage — it makes husbands want to have sex with a cantaloupe. It’s a proven fact.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:37 pmgoldenguardian86 says:
1. Schlafly is talking from her time and you should pickup a book and learn about it.
From her speech: “I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.”
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goldenguardian86 says:
Feminism preaches that women are not just equal to men but better and deserve better treatment all together.
This is a lie. Feminism merely refers to the notion that women should receive equal treatment to men.
m-w:
Most everything you said after this is based on that lie that you stated there. Now that I have corrected your misconception, you may feel free to retract all of that and apologize.
The only reason for you to claim that equal rights are special rights would be to maintain your own special rights.
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goldenguardian86 says:
Feminism is fueled by anti-male sentiments.
Not at all. In fact, women enforce gender roles in society almost as much as men. And men suffer from restrictive gender roles almost as much as women.
Those of us who are fond of women and who support them getting equal rights, treatment, and respect in society aren’t disliked by them at all. Those of you who want to force women into a position of servitude seem be disliked by them for it. And you don’t understand why?
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goldenguardian86 says:
To put it simply, if men didn’t have it women wouldn’t complain about it.
What is “it?” Jobs? Money? Independence? Property? The vote?
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goldenguardian86 says:
That may sound “too hot” for some of you but it is really that old “monkey see monkey do” clause.
Yes… Women see men making their own way in the world, being owned by no one, making their own money and participating in public policy and like the cute little monkeys they are, merely seek to imitate the observed behavior.
/snark
You’re really sick, you know that?
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goldenguardian86 says:
Abstinence works if the public would give it a fair shot.
Everywhere “abstinence-only” education has been implemented, it has resulted in increased rates of STD’s, unplanned pregnancies and abortions. “Abstinence” is just a fancy word for “good intentions.” What’s the failure rate on good intentions?
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goldenguardian86 says:
Back in the day the men had to trick sex out of women. Now a days, thanks to feminism, they just sit back and it comes to them. Who gets hurt? The women of coarse.
You’re saying they were better off when they were having sex “tricked” out of them? You’re advocating rape here, aren’t you?
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goldenguardian86 says:
Remember, if it wasn’t for some homestead housewife putting her children first instead of dumping them off in the forest YOU would not be here.
Nonsense: my forest upbringing was excellent. I can speak fluent racoon and everything. Also, you are a silly person.
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goldenguardian86 says:
Here’s another case for you. Whether you liked Sarah Palin or not she rose to a rank most men in her party never get to see. Instead of showing her a little respect for accomplishing such a deed she was belittled by feminists and said to not be a “real woman.”
No she wasn’t. The criticism levied to her by feminists was solely based on her political positions opposing feminism, not her personal gender or history. It was hypocritical of her.
The fact remains that she could never have been considered as a candidate for the Vice Presidency if it weren’t for the feminist movement. As of now, both parties have put forward a female VP nominee, and that’s great.
However, according to your own arguments she should have shut up and gone back to the kitchen. We weren’t the ones saying that. You are.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:37 pmA women who makes her living denounces the very thing that allowed her to make her living: why am I not surprised she’s a Republican?
September 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pmTo post 117 El Bruce If your going to translate then use logic or don’t translate my comment.I don’t either approve or disapprove of female politicians. It is their ideology I either ascribe to or don’t. There was a time when I would have jumped on Pelosi’s bandwagon. I also don’t think Palin is the answer, but I think she gets dumped on unfairly and what I am saying is that if you want to dump on her then we’ll dump right back on your political divas. Your translation was a typical Alinsky strategy to ridicule my post but sorry I am wise to your tactic and it doesn’t work. Keep firing and I’ll fire back. In the end we’ll see who has the most logic. If I’m wrong I will eventuially admit it, but I’m betting you wouldn’t know how.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:32 pm“she was presented with the “American Hero of the Century” award”
and which century would that be?
September 29th, 2009 at 7:57 pmthe 18th century in which the old hag was born?
the 20th century which should have sent her back to her maker?
or
the 13th century where she wishes the role of women would return to?
Schafly, a woman on the public stage, outside the home, outside what she preaches. A woman no home would accept claiming loudly that women should be in the home.
Yes, women of America, listen to what I say even though it is totally contrary to what I do. I’m rich because, well, you silly people listen to me. Keep the donations coming and I will keep telling you that you are stupid.
Ain’t America wonderful?
September 29th, 2009 at 7:58 pmand Hoodathunk,
September 29th, 2009 at 8:01 pmaccording to her philosophy, her marriage was an epic failure since she produced a gay son which, is obviously the result of one’s upbringing.
Thanks for the chuckle, ElBruce.
ElBruce says:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:22 pmNonsense: my forest upbringing was excellent. I can speak fluent racoon and everything
Micif says:
Your translation was a typical Alinsky strategy to ridicule my post but sorry I am wise to your tactic and it doesn’t work.
This Alinsky guy uses facts, logic and reason? Well OK, then. I guess I’d better concede the discussion since you’ve warned me that facts and logic won’t work on you. Unfortunately, they’re all I got.
Look, you listed a number of female politicians who you don’t like, and also Michelle Obama who last I checked, didn’t run for anything. Then you said Palin should be a politician but Pelosi shouldn’t. To me, it sounds like feminism is something you pull out only when it applies to female politicians of whom you approve.
I advocate merely that like any issue of freedom, it either applies equally to everyone, or no one at all.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:31 pmYes, Purple State, you’re correct. If it weren’t for the femininist movement in the 1960’s, Phyllis S….fly wouldn’t have come to promenince.
Oh, by the way, I remember hearing QUITE some time ago that her son is gay. She shouldn’t be throwing mud at anyone.
I don’t know when this video was made, but it doesn’t seem current. She still can’t be a blonde.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pmLastly, I have no problem with a woman who wants to go work. If a couple shares an interest such as work great things are possible. What I am advocating here is responsibility and priority. If you don’t have adequate time for a family then don’t have one! No one is going to criminalize you for not having kids but don’t look down upon the woman that does have some and wants to stay at home with them. That is really common today and none of you responded to that when I said it earlier. Another “inconvenient truth” for the left-wing hippies.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pmTo gg86
Please point out the poster here who has expressed disdain for a woman who wants to stay at home to raise her kids. Most of us here, in fact, support the childcare-leave of absence option for both men and women. Finally to call all left-wingers “hippies” is so 1970s–an inconvenient truth for a silly rightwing troll.
grinchguardian86 says:
September 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pmdon’t look down upon the woman that does have some and wants to stay at home with them. That is really common today and none of you responded to that when I said it earlier. Another “inconvenient truth” for the left-wing hippies
Schlafly is quite possibly the most accomplished woman our country has ever had: Single-handedly defeated the ERA and kept it defeated for 40-some years to the present; raised 6 kids; tested military weapons during the World War; wrote the Bible of advanced military weaponry; caused the conservative movement to blossom with “A Choice Not an Echo”; created and ran her own publishing company; so beautiful as a young woman and worked as a highly in-demand fashion model; when criticized for not being a lawyer and fighting the ERA, she became one and graduated at the top of her class; ran for the presidency in 1967; believer in family values and lived them; and on and on and on.
Best of all she inspired Ann Coulter and other conservative women to become major political players in their own ways. And she never lost an argument. “It’s no secret to clobbering a liberal,” she said. “I just always have the facts.”
The original and only feminist who deserves the name.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pmgoldenguardian86 says:
What I am advocating here is responsibility and priority. If you don’t have adequate time for a family then don’t have one!
Are you advocating this principle for men as well?
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goldenguardian86 says:
No one is going to criminalize you for not having kids but don’t look down upon the woman that does have some and wants to stay at home with them.
OK, I won’t.
By the way, I’m still waiting for you to explain why you seemed to be promoting rape in post #114: “Back in the day the men had to trick sex out of women. Now a days, thanks to feminism, they just sit back and it comes to them. Who gets hurt? The women of coarse.” I’m going to have a difficult time discussing roles in the workplace and whatnot with you with that big, pro-rape thing still hanging out there unaddressed.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:24 pmCheck out all of Phyllis Schlafly’s interviews on YouTube.
One incredibly fascinating woman who never ducks a legitimate question.
Her answers are so brilliant they will send chills up your spine in a manner Obama syncophants only wish he did.
And she loves being interviewed by liberals who challenge her. She has turned several liberals into conservatives after her interviews. There are so many “a-ha” moments in each of them.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:26 pmRoboSlater says:
Schlafly is quite possibly the most accomplished woman our country has ever had: Single-handedly defeated the ERA and kept it defeated for 40-some years to the present;
This is like bragging about being an African-American Confederate general…. if the South won. Thanks for bringing up the ERA, though. We should do that again.
As for the rest of her “accomplishments,” many women have more extensive resumes than that.
Oh yeah, Schlafly opposes allowing women to “accomplish” things. Apparently with the exception of herself? So which is it, are you proud of her or do you agree with her that she should shut up and get back in the kitchen?
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RoboSlater says:
And she never lost an argument.
This is teh funny. Not noticing that you’ve lost the argument is not the same thing as not losing the argument.
Ann Coulter is a great example, though. For one thing, she avoids actual opposition, only going on “safe” shows and avoiding any with someone who might call her on her BS. Her rhetorical style merely consists of calling liberals nasty names (only when they’re not around) and attacking strawman arguments she created for herself, peppered with advocating positions so horrific that wingnuts find them tittilating (throw all Arab-Americans in concentration camps? Ooh!) Typical Coulter “argument” – “You’re trying to communize doctors? You probably can’t please a woman. We should castrate everybody who registers as a Democrat.” Bang! Another winnar! See how that works?
It’s a schtick, but it ain’t argumentation.
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RoboSlater says:
“I just always have the facts.”
I think Maddow’s got that method trademarked by now, thanks.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:37 pmRoboSlater says:
She has turned several liberals into conservatives after her interviews.
Name them.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:37 pmBefore the third wave of feminism women were to blame for everything. Everything wrong with a kid was the mother’s fault.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:07 am“By the way, I’m still waiting for you to explain why you seemed to be promoting rape in post #114: “Back in the day the men had to trick sex out of women. Now a days, thanks to feminism, they just sit back and it comes to them. Who gets hurt? The women of coarse.” I’m going to have a difficult time discussing roles in the workplace and whatnot with you with that big, pro-rape thing still hanging out there unaddressed.”
I don’t know how you got rape from that but you have demonstrated a key liberal tactic of SPIN! You demonize your opponents words by jumping to conclusions and flaming them for your misunderstanding.
I meant that back in the day men would have to try a lot harder to get their girlfriends and wives to agree to have sex. The “tricks” I was referring to is smooth talking, making false promises, gifts, and the sort. You are sick person if the first thing that came to your mind is rape. Disgusting!
As far as work-place roles go I am a merit based person. If you qualify better than the rest then the job should be yours regardless of anything else. Crying you didn’t get the job because you are X, Y, or Z is the reason we have such unqualified people and poor service relations in America.
I’m sorry I didn’t respond to your comments but if you haven’t noticed I have about 5 of you attacking me at once. I have a life and don’t have time to address each one of your arguments personally.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:02 pmgoldenguardian86 says:
I meant that back in the day men would have to try a lot harder to get their girlfriends and wives to agree to have sex. The “tricks” I was referring to is smooth talking, making false promises, gifts, and the sort.
You’re talking about lying to coerce sex from women. OK, that’s not necessarily rape. But it’s hardly respectful of their humanity, and it certainly isn’t better for the fraud victim in any case. You’re the sick person here.
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goldenguardian86 says:
As far as work-place roles go I am a merit based person. If you qualify better than the rest then the job should be yours regardless of anything else. Crying you didn’t get the job because you are X, Y, or Z is the reason we have such unqualified people and poor service relations in America.
Obviously you wouldn’t hire an equally qualified woman for a job if there was a man also applying. Especially if it was a “traditionally male” job. That would be feminism.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:47 pmgoldenguardian86 says:
“By the way, I’m still waiting for you to explain why you seemed to be promoting rape in post #114: “Back in the day the men had to trick sex out of women. Now a days, thanks to feminism, they just sit back and it comes to them. Who gets hurt? The women of coarse.” I’m going to have a difficult time discussing roles in the workplace and whatnot with you with that big, pro-rape thing still hanging out there unaddressed.”
I don’t know how you got rape from that but you have demonstrated a key liberal tactic of SPIN! You demonize your opponents words by jumping to conclusions and flaming them for your misunderstanding.
I meant that back in the day men would have to try a lot harder to get their girlfriends and wives to agree to have sex. The “tricks” I was referring to is smooth talking, making false promises, gifts, and the sort. You are sick person if the first thing that came to your mind is rape. Disgusting!
As far as work-place roles go I am a merit based person. If you qualify better than the rest then the job should be yours regardless of anything else. Crying you didn’t get the job because you are X, Y, or Z is the reason we have such unqualified people and poor service relations in America.
I’m sorry I didn’t respond to your comments but if you haven’t noticed I have about 5 of you attacking me at once. I have a life and don’t have time to address each one of your arguments personally.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pmSO, it’s wrong for guys to chase after women with honest compliments and sincere offers of affection? women are lazy because us guys are getting up and going after them with tactics other than roofie cocktails?
You say you’re a merit based person, so give us a few merits to continue to listen to you post this drivel. Otherwise, go back to your undoubtedly lonely life and stay the hell off the board.
@ElBruce:
That’s what I was saying!!!!! Listen to yourself. Typical liberal caught up in his/her own flaming that they refuse to process the truth of what is being said to them. I’m saying a woman’s human dignity should be respected by a man. When people are too free with sex the opposite gender of the “too free” person leads them to be taken advantage of and used. When something is being given away for free do we conserve it? NO! We take more than we need and don’t care. That’s what plagues America today and we have you liberals to thank for it. You respect nothing other than what makes you look like the hero. Talk about selfishness and conceit.
It is very rare that 2 people are exactly 100% equally qualified for a job. If such an unrealistic situation did happen I would flip the coin and leave it to chance. The coin would be a fair coin btw. What you speak of is not feminism. Perhaps you should read this article and learn something yet again. (http://www.backlash.com/book/cycle.html)
You still failed to comment on my statement about the Selective Service. Why aren’t the feminists hot on that issue? What’s the matter? You got no more lighter fluid in your flame thrower for that one?
USNclerk:
You words are those of an intolerant bigot. Once more you demonstrate how liberal spin is used to demonize others. You sound more like a 2 year old whining that didn’t get it’s way. It is called Freedom of Speech as you liberals so often like to lay claim to. I will post if I want. You are not required to reply.
So you mean to tell me every guy you know only gives honest compliments in all the history of mankind. Not 1 man has ever lied to a woman to take advantage of her? Get real pal! Perhaps you’ve used such tactics and don’t like being exposed.
Undoubtedly lonely life eh? Just like a typical liberal to go on his/her emotion to spew all sorts of unsubstantiated lies from their mouth. I’ve made not one such insult against any of you and you attack like this. If your ways are really the “better ways” then why don’t you demonstrate a grown up attitude, apologize, and talk like a civil person with data. I’ve provided several good sources and you have provided nothing exception heated emotion, spin, and baseless attacks.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pmThank you for your sharing.!
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 am