“Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have big brother government to be your provider.” – Phyllis Schlafly
Mrs. Schlafly strikes again.
I’ve been following the matriarch of the right-wing cliterati since my big brother debated her in Missouri back when I was a kid, he was a Mo. Republican state senator and one of several co-sponsors for the ERA amendment, and Mrs. Schlafly thought it would ruin women’s comfy spot in the firmament, because women would be peeing in stalls next to men. Yeah, I know, she’s crazy, and we go a long way back. Well, Schlafly is still nuts and the Republican Tea Party is embracing her with both arms.
Hey, but at least she’s not guilt tripping women who don’t want to get married or have children, of which I was a member until my husband swept me off my feet at a time in life when Susan Faludi said I was more likely to be killed by a terrorist. In her latest truth telling moment, Schlafly reveals the right’s stance on women in all its glory.
It’s not like this is out of the mainstream of Republican thinking. Remember the article on “Saint Sarah” in Newsweek recently?
[...] … The women who follow Palin will fight against Roe—and support adoption and prenatal health clinics—but they aren’t generally focused on birth control, sex education, or gender discrimination. They shrug at the agonies of the overeducated moms who feel forced to choose between work and family (no one had to do that on the farm), and they refute the idea that to succeed in the world a woman must look and act like a man. (“That Supreme Court nominee—I can’t relate to her at all,” Ruthie McIntosh, one of those who jumped to her feet at the Palin breakfast in Washington last month, told me.) These Christians seek a power that allows them to formally acquiesce to male authority and conservative theology, even as they assume increasingly visible roles in their families, their churches, their communities, and the world.
Without a husband to which a woman can acquiesce, we’re just not women. So, bitches, get busy and find a man, and if you’ve got one, get down on your knees and get busy acquiescing.
Maybe now you understand why Republicans were against the Lily Ledbetter Act Pres. Obama signed into law. Give women equal pay for equal work and the whole frickin’ family structure goes to hell in a hand basket. It destroys a a man’s masculinity, which requires a woman to be dependent, second class and subservient so they don’t get wild-eyed notions of their own powers. Can’t have that.
That sound you just heard is my husband’s loud guffaw. My strength makes him more masculine, which is revealed on his smiling face every damn day. He’s the biggest supporter of feminism I know.
This is why Sarah Palin announcing this year there was a “new conservative feminist movement” rising was so laughable. Feminism begins with respecting a woman’s freedom to orchestrate her life how she sees fit. Feminists like myself respect Palin’s life path, she and Phyllis Schlafly just don’t respect mine. The anti feminism in the Republican Tea Party revolves around denying women’s individual freedoms, while also making choices for women.
So, you single mothers who have children, with the father not present for whatever reasons, including those who have chosen to be mothers alone because the right mate hasn’t arrived and you’re running out of time, the jig is up. Culture is crapping out because of your ballsy independence from men. And we all know you wouldn’t be doing it without the gov-ment paying your bills, you lousy freeloaders.
Oh, and it’s all Pres. Obama’s fault, because we all know how black people are, right? They’re all about extending money to “welfare queens.” At least that’s the thinking of the 21st century Republican Tea Party.
Honest conservatives should come out a slap Mrs. Schlafly down and put her in her place, which resides somewhere in the mid-19th century. Of course, they won’t, which is why Republicans are a dying brand sucking off the teat of the Tea Party to stay alive.
But this is another example of why people are inspired to come home at election time. The thought of these fundamentalist wackos holding power in Washington scares the crap out of voters. Guess what? It should.
“That sound you just heard is my husbands loud guffaw. My strength makes him more masculine, which is revealed on his smiling face every damn day.”
Amen to that TM. My wife is a freakin’ rock, and I couldn’t imagine it any other way. F*&K ‘em. It pisses me off just reading this drivel from the Schlaflys of the world.
Women just don’t need that kind of “help”. Gggrrr!
Damn straight. Here’s to Mrs. Iampiedaddy… and her fabulous feminist hubby.
yep these wackos scare the hell out me more than the incompetent dems. so back home i am.
heya, t4h, thanks for sharing that. always interested to hear who has come home, as well as who won’t, with the second so far outnumbering the first. with others simply striking the 2010 election.
She is an insult to all women! She is a nutjob. BTW I am so happy I voted for Obama, who has ACCOMPLISHED things unlike his predecessor!
You’re supposed to be scared by the wackos so you vote for the same old Democrats. That’s the old game. The problem for the legacy party is that millions of us won’t play the game any more. I’m sure you’re right that a great many will “come home” in the end. But only by NOT doing this will anything ever change.
Personally, I’m not scared of the wackos. The country is going to hell faster than greased lightning anyway, and Obama is Bush III. Give me a Democrat who speaks the truth and upholds Democratic values, and I’ll vote. Obama is a total traitor, however, and won’t get my vote ever again.
I feel your frustration. I’ve been starting to feel that having a Republican as President may be better than a Democrat who doesn’t share my values.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2010/7/29/151328/837
President Palin. President Romney. President Gingrich. President Thune. President Huckabee. President Jindal, President Jeb Bush…
I could keep going, but that’s should be enough to scare the above thought right out of anyones head.
Did you look at the link I posted?
If President Palin pressed her Drill Baby Drill approach, the Dems would be all over her. When Obama did the same, it was met with mostly silence from the left.
If President Jeb Bush pushed for greater intrusion into our private lives (see link), the left would be all over him. Obama supports the same thing…and we hear mostly silence.
See my point?
No, Joe, I don’t see your point, and honestly, there is no point for me to see. We don’t hear silence at all; I hear plenty of my friends expressing concern and angst. From many people that I respect on the left, I hear expressions of doubt mixed with some regret.
BUT, what I am saying is we would see a whole lot of stupid with any of the Republican names I listed, and no one I know will let that happen. Voting for the Republican is not a valid option under any circumstance at this point in our history. Or have we forgotten Bush? Honeslty, think long and hard what we saw every day with this man in charge of our nation and the world. Think..real..hard.
See my point??
Schlafly, as Taylor points out, has been around for quite a while. I don’t think she’s as “scary” as she use to be, as many / most of that once rather powerful crowd are not — remember the era of the Christian Coalition?
She is still a small gift to Dems, in the “you have nowhere else to go” framing, and she certainly points to a significant portion of the Reps’ base.
So let me see if I have this correct.
A UUUUberchristian woman who condems women for not being stay at home moms but who never was one herself,who INSISTS homosexuality is a CHOICE and proper christian discipline and upbringing will prevent gullable boys from making that choice…YET HAS A GAY SON HERSELF,who castigates women for using birthcontrol or availing themselves of abortion services yet says NOTHING about the fact that CHRISTIAN women make up by FAR the biggest segment that have abortions, THIS woman has even MORE to say about the subject? BWAHAHAHAHA!
My favorite moment in the womens rights struggle was Gloria Steinhem was walking past a group of UBERchristian protesters when one of them shouted that feminists were just lesbians. She whipped around and asked “then why do we want the right to abortion for?”
Phyllis Schlafly is a mean old hateful hypocrite. My heart breaks for her gay son. Yeah! I hope she is front and center for the Repubs this year.A person all young women can aspire NOT to be.
Speaking of coming home,I am in incremental ways. Last night I had a Meet and Greet for a local Dem who is running for country executive. Impressive guy. The interesting thing is I invited people who generally vote Repug. They ended up contributing to his campaign and one couple just called while they were driving back from making an absentee vote for him. The key I think was a small comfortable setting with lots of opportunity to ask questions and talk.
A “local Dem” at a county level — supporting one good, local candidate at a time is a great way to be active.
It is the way I have to play it for now.
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Phyllis Schafly is a blast from the past. I never listened to her or what she had to say. This year though more conserative women are running for office as I have never seen before. Look at the governors races and senate and other races. I am so happy I am a independent and not tied to either party no more. President Obama went on the View because he was loosing women. The democrats along with Stupak caused part of this because of what they did. The democrats are not going to have the same numbers that went to the polls for them like they did in 2008.
“a mean old hateful hypocrite.”
Wa hell, you just discribed every repugnantklaner I’ve seen in public since Obama won the election!
In Pa. if you register as an Independent all you do is lose your chance to vote in primaries. I have actually considered reregistering as a repug just so I can hear all the dirt and vote for the crazyest candidates, hell, campaign vigorisly for them!