Shouldn't Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum Anti-Feminists be home taking care of the kids and cooking?

Question

I mean, why aren't they walking the walk they're talking?

They really do run to non-receivers, Professor. I tend to think that they should be kept barefoot and pregnant until they start seeing the advantages of Equality. Their movement is really about running other women down for trying to do something with their lives.

It's called "Pulling up the ladder," 66666z. "We've got what we want and we're the only ones who can have it."

Answer 1

I met one of them once. She was aghast that I had a job, children, a husband and was in my second masters program. She thought I should just give up my life, cause I did not matter as much as everyone else.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

LOL I know!

"Mrs. Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues.

Mrs. Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University."

"Phyllis Schlafly is America's best-known advocate of the dignity and honor that we as a society owe to the role of *FULL TIME* homemaker. The mother of six children, she was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year. "

(Emphasis, mine)

And guess who 'Mrs. Schlafly' endorses along with Rush Limbaugh (Proprietor of the lovely term 'Feminazi')?

Christina Hoff-Sommers, the feminist thief herself.

Hypocrites.

Answer 4

Phyllis Schlafly and others like her are very big on telling other women how to live their lives but when it comes to themselves, somehow those rules don't apply. She was earning her college degrees and running for Congress well before her own children were grown. I watched her on a TV show a while back and people were calling in with questions. Towards the end of the show, somebody called in about her organization and implied that they were taking advantage of tax breaks while being a political group. She started getting really testy about that. Then someone else called in about her son John, who is gay and lives with his lover in San Francisco. She just totally fell apart on that one. It was clear that his sexual orientation bothers her a great deal. She tried to brush it off by saying that one day she would write about her feelings on that. Well, it's been almost a decade now and so far, there's been nothing.

Answer 5

LMAO. All those women writing books and public speaking about how good it is to sit around and raise babies and have no adult life of your own like traditional gender roles determine have all their kids in toxic daycare and "feminized, emasculated" husbands who actually do *housework* and are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Of course, anti-feminist women who do such feminist things still have an interest in keeping other women "at home": it means that those pathetically few women who are able to have their voices heard in the patriarchy are extra-special hero geniuses worthy of their 10 pages in an 800-page history textbook. 'Cause, you know, all the 99% of other women are too dumb, too lazy, or don't *want* important and meaningful jobs.

Answer 6

Yes, and so should Alexandra, Baby on the way, and Mafia Girls should just go get knocked up because she can't wait for it - so she said. The only one who can stick around is PJ/Prashant - because he is a man - so he does not need to take care of the kids or cook dinner.

So, ladies, to the pots and pans I say!

;-)

Answer 7

You'd think so. Phyllis Schlafly attacked feminists for making political and economic strides, but SHE wrote over 20 books, earned three degrees, and ran for Congress twice — she owes us big.

Answer 8

Quite a few of these traditional "family values" women lead untraditional lives, quite different from the wife and mother roles they advocate for the rest of the Christian and non-Christian women of America, other than themselves, of course. What about Coulter? She's not married, and where are those kids she's suppose to be having?

Here's one of the mission statements of the Eagle Forum: We honor the institution of marriage and the role of the fulltime homemaker. Schalfy spends quite a bit of time at home with her children and grandchildren, I'm sure, when she is not:
-Appearing in debates on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal.
-Creating her monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report, which is now in its 41st year.
-Writing her syndicated column that appears in 100 newspapers.
-Speaking on her radio commentaries which are heard daily on 460 stations, and speaking on her radio talk show on education called "Eagle Forum Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations.

-When not raising her children and assisting her husband, Mrs. Schlafly became a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan.
-Between baking cookies, she has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues.
-When taking a break from cleaning, Mrs. Schlafly became a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University.
-Phyllis Schlafly is the mother of six children, and she was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year.
-And one of her children, her eldest son, is gay. He works for his mothers organization, which fights gay marriage. He was outed in 1992. Mom doesn't like discussing her son's sexual orientation, at all:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/02/at_80_schlafly_is_still_a_conservative_force/?page=2
http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html

Another not-so-stay-at-home-mom, is Beverly LaHaye, founder of Concerned Women for America (CWA):
She founded CWA in 1979 to counter the activities of the National Organization for Women (NOW), particularly NOW’s support for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and to promote traditional, Judeo-Christian values.

-Beverly LaHaye hosted a daily, syndicated, radio talk show, Beverly LaHaye Today.
-She's written over a dozen books.
-She's appeared on numerous talk shows and hosted hundreds of workshops.
-One of the goals of her group: Populating the earth is a mandate from God, not a threat to humanity. But she stopped at four kids. Why?
http://gideon.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2114&department=CWA&categoryid=

Answer 9

I agree. They're not living the way they say women should. What are they doing being politically outspoken, and wanting their opinions to count, when they should be home obeying their husbands?

Answer 10

Yes.