Washington University at St. Louis is about to confer an honorary degree on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who believes that there’s no such thing as marital rape. As she put it, “I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That’s what marriage is all about.” How delightful. This is also the woman who killed the Equal Rights Amendment (apparently, America is NOT about equality). A couple other Schlafly gems:
- On sexually transmitted diseases (she’s for them): “It’s very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damaged baby (even 10 years later when she may be happily married)”
- On diversity (she’s against it): “Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.”
- On feminism: “Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.”
And the rest are self-explanatory:
- “Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.”
- “Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.”
- “[The] ERA mean[t] abortion funding, mean[t] homosexual privileges, mean[t] whatever else”
- “When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?”
Wow.
Contact Wash U (information here). Wash U, every year, graduates thousands of women who will go on to contribute to advancing human knowledge and building a better society. Phyllis Schlafly, who thinks that they should have stayed in the kitchen “where they belong,” does not deserve to share the stage with them.
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4 responses so far ↓
zooeyibz // May 13, 2008 at 4:10 pm
dear loving lord above… that’s a name I didn’t expect to see again, outside the pages of my copy of Outrageous Acts & Everyday Rebellions.
who in hell thought this was a good idea?
Progressive Conservative // May 13, 2008 at 4:22 pm
You forgot to mention that she supports teaching ID.
While I’m not a fan of her and many of her comments, she was/is an important counter-voice to the extremism of some feminists. Both had their place in the evolution of women’s rights, before the pendelum settled in the middle.
Ames // May 13, 2008 at 6:55 pm
She doesn’t support ID - she supports out-and-out, 6-day creationism!!!
And that’s a generous reading of her… I’m unconvinced. Although every voice must be heard, I think hers long ago outlived its usefulness.
Dana Hunter // May 14, 2008 at 7:00 am
Here, here! While some uber-feminists get completely out of hand, not even they deserve to be beaten with the Phyllis Schlafly stick.
As a woman who holds a “well, duh-huh” view on the question of whether men and women are mostly* equal, I have to say that Phyllis Schlafly is more likely to turn me into a rabid, man-hating feminist than moderate my already moderate views. The thought of her getting a doctorate makes me sick.
*Sorry, guys. We’re still light-years ahead in the baby-bearing department. ;-)
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