Mar 29 2007
Dumb All Over, March Edition
I love a good zombie movie, in particular the shlocky, gory variety (Romero, Fulci, etc.) Hopping around the web today, I came across a zombie that scared the shit out of me.. Phyllis Schafly, of the wingnut group the Eagle Forum. Schafly’s one of those far-right social conservatives who hates, I mean really HATES feminism, so much that she played a significant part in keeping the Equal Rights Amendment from passing a few decades ago. Still around, still dumb all over.
Anyways, Schafly rose from the grave and gave a speech at Bates College in Maine, recently, as a guest of the Bates College Republicans. Schafly’s got quite a mind on her there. Heck, she even thinks that it’s impossible for husbands to rape their wives. I’m not kidding:
At one point, Schlafly also contended that married women cannot be sexually assaulted by their husbands. By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape,” she said.
You’ve heard of the self-hating Jew or black, she’s the self hating woman:
“Women in combat are a hazard to other people around them,” she said. “They aren’t tall enough to see out of the trucks, they’re not strong enough to carry their buddy off the battlefield if he’s wounded, and they can’t bark out orders loudly enough for everyone to hear.”
She’s 81 now, but her ideas are more old and outdated than she is. Those zombies in “Dawn of the Dead’ got nothing on her.
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“Rose from the grave”? Where have you been? Schlafly has been active a lot in recent years. And she has been writing on Town Hall regularly for years, too.
I know. Thankfully she’s less visible than she used to be. The ‘zombie’ thing was more about how fossil-like her ideas are.
Don’t agree with her on the marriage sex thing (I would like to see the entire statement for context purposes), but I totally agree with her on not allowing women into combat situations.
Didn’t you know that a lot of women changed their minds about the ERA when they found out that they would lose their exemption from having to register with selective service?
Yeah, I think the article alludes to it at one point. At least we finally agree on something- the marriage thing.
I also wanted to add that the analogy was clever. It’s nice to see you tie in your movie reviewing with your political commentary.
It’s also nice to see you guys being civil.
He started it!!!
Now, c’mon, the last thing I need is another conservative friend. Y’all are gonna get me in serious trouble with all my crazy moonbat friends…;)