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whynotshesaid
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
The most annoying thing about Phyllis Schlafly is that she castigates women for doing exactly what she's been doing for decades now.

I'm sure she'd dress up her career by calling it a sacrifice that has to be made for the good of society, to which I have one word - BULLSHIT.
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babyruthless
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Ugh. When I was in college, she did a lecture. She came to a women's college, preached to us about the evils of [second-wave] feminism, complained that [second-wave] feminists were fighting a battle that had already been won, and said that we would all regret our empty wombs if we didn't have baybees. When an audience member asked her about women who regretted having baybees instead of a life (mentioning, specifically, a friend's mother who had a half dozen kids, and couldn't leave her philandering husband because she had a high-school education and no job experience. Ever.) She said that that could never happen. Only a cruel, bitter person could regret having a brood instead of an autonomous existance outside the home.

And then she told us that we were not to get jobs. It was okay, she supposed, if we had to work for a few months after graduation before we found a husband, but after that, no way. We were allowed to go to law school once the youngest baby graduated from high school. Which should, of course, be 18 years after you enter menopause, because you should never use birth control, because babies are the MOST IMPORTANT THING. Also, pleasing your man. And crazy hairdos.
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willwriteforfood
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
At one of the other seminars at this delightfully named conference, the guest speaker talked about how conservatives need to suit up and buy more ammunition and guns because a war is coming. And then went into a disquisition on the similarities between Nazi Germany and present-day America. Just so you know what kind of conference this was.

Schlafly's presence seems entirely in keeping. Every time she emerges from her rock, I am reminded again how similar she is to Serena Joy. And how Betty Friedan probably had a dartboard with Schlafly's face on it while she was writing The Feminine Mystique.
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envirodesigner
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Carrie Prejean a "great conservative woman"? I'm going to let history be the judge of that one.
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LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues
09/29/09

@envirodesigner: I'm reeeeally hoping history says: Who?
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whynotshesaid
09/29/09

@envirodesigner: Can you imagine if she tries to run for office?

Carrie Prejean 2016: I AM DOING THIS.
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tallgirl-in-heels
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Does this calendar count down to the Apocalypse?
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UrbanAchiever
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Ah, Phyllis, bringing the crazy for over four decades. Schlafly was the example my mom used when helping me understand the meaning of 'irony' and 'hypocrisy': As one of the original anti-feminists, there was Phyllis touring the nation and building a career whilst preaching the virtues of stay-at-home motherhood.
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truckasaurus
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Oh yeah, Phyllis Schafly, feminism is a HUGE problem. Gender equality? What is THAT all about? To think - feminism allowed you to leave the kitchen and find your voice instead of being relegated to a life of constant, unfulfilling housework.

Why not set an example for us all and go clean your toilet and never, ever speak without permission again?
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whynotshesaid
09/29/09

@truckasaurus is jackie jormp-jomp: Amen.
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Lymed
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
"How To Take Back America" Seriously? You couldn't think of anything more creative than putting a "How" before the name of a progressive conference...
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Catabolic
09/30/09

@Lymed: Are they attempting to take America back from someone or back to something? My feeling is Phyllis is trying to take America back from the 2000s into the magial era depicted in those Jehovah's witness comics where a 1950s nuclear family is having a delightful picnic with a lion and a sheep.
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Ultraprison!
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
This is the second time I've brought it up today, but this is seriously a STFU Conservatives
contender. Possibly also STFUParents. STFUSmugWomen, does that exist?
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Ruby_de_la_Booby
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
I feel like "schlafly" is crying out to be made into a neologism. Similar to "santorum."
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ritualtheory
09/29/09

@Ruby_de_la_Booby: Nice. I think it could easily refer to inconvenient itchiness.
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Joy_Rebar
09/29/09

@Ruby_de_la_Booby: Maybe it could be an adverb, since it ends in "ly." It could mean "unsourced, unverified, and without merit." As in: "I'm still 100% relevant," she said schlafly."
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whynotshesaid
09/29/09

@ritualtheory: As in, "My vadge suffered a major attack of schlafly while I sat in my meeting, and all I wanted was to head to the bathroom with a damn hairbrush to take care of that shit"? Like that?
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Blueberry26
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
If you have a problem with fatherless homes, deal with the fathers who leave. Please and thank you.
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Lymed
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
If I have a child and raise it with my husband, do I have to give my feminist card back? I thought it was enough that I moved into a neighborhood with the gays but now I'm concerned.
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pesematology
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
I didn't know feminists were in favor of fatherless homes? I thought we wanted fathers to be in the home *more*?
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curiousgeorgiana
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
It's like the 12 horse-women of the apocalypse.
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midwestdesigner
09/29/09

In reply to Phyllis Schlafly, Calendar Girl
Anna, I hate to be annoying. I think you have a typo. It's not Great American Conservative Women calendar. It's Grating American Conservative Women Calendar.
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Anna N.
09/29/09

@midwestdesigner: For $50, it comes with a complimentary cheese-grater. But be warned, prolonged viewing of the calendar may make you want to use it on your face.
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