Phyllis Schlafly: Married women can’t be raped by their husbands

[babylonsister]

I don't even know where to begin with this one...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/29/married-women-cant-be-raped-by-their-husbands/

Married women can’t be raped by their husbands.

“By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape,” said right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly yesterday at Bates College. She also noted that women have an “inherent physical inferiority” and should not be firefighters, soldiers, or construction workers: “Women in combat are a hazard to other people around them.”

From here:

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/205234-3/LewistonAuburn/Schlafly_cranks_up_agitation_at_Bates/#

[gratuitous]

1. How's your son, Phyllis?

Schlafly-be-gone!

[DesertRat]

79. What's the story on her son? n/t

[Bucky]

91. According to Wiki and Google....

he's been diagnosed with "Teh Gay". It is unknown who gave him "Teh Gay" but currently he lives with his 80 year old mom while seeking treatment for his condition in fabulous Florida.

Wiki sayeth: "In 1992, her eldest son, John, was publicly outed as a gay man by Michelangelo Signorile. John Schlafly is an attorney who has worked with her at the Eagle Forum and as such, has been partly responsible for promoting the group's anti-same-sex marriage agenda.^{{citation needed}} Her son remains director of the Alton, Illinois, office and accompanies her on some of her public engagements. John Schlafly has never actively sought to conceal his sexual orientation.^{{citation needed}}"

[saltpoint]

2. Jesus, what an idiot Phyllis Schlafly is.

[hobbit709]

3. For someone who thinks

that a woman should stay barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen quietly, she sure shoots her mouth off in public a lot. But thats the RW way-Do as I say, not as I do.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Does this mean he's allowed to hit her and do other physical stuff she doesn't want? nt

[blondie58]

8. well, yes she IS his property!

It is incredible that any woman would have this attitude. It is akin to saying that the woman in the bar asked to be raped- look at how she was dressed.

IDIOTS

[NewJeffCT]

5. I must have missed that clause in my marriage license

about marriage allowing me to rape my wife. Maybe it was in the fine print?

:argh:

and what's up with, "inherent physical inferiority" ? I think we need some DU women to go up there and kick her ass!

[AnneD]

32. If some one will hold my purse....

I'll do it for free. This pea headed woman sets women back at least 50 years every time she opens her mouth. What I really want to know is who pulled the stake out?

[Democrat 4 Ever]

46. Hell, I'll send my ten year old granddaughter to kick her ass.

Would take all of 30 seconds. I thought Phyllis "Walking Cadaver" Schlafly had gone to that great household in the sky. Dang.

Damn typos - where on earth do they come from?

[Clark2008]

95. Heck, if you'll wait a couple of months, I'll send my newborn

daughter over to spit up on her when your granddaughter's done kicking her butt.

:grr:

[no_hypocrisy]

6. 1974 case in Oregon says no, your husband has no legal right

to rape you and he can be prosecuted accordingly.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916594,00.html

[gatorboy]

7. Is it me or are do the wingnut women pundits easily outsleaze the men?

Or are they equal in their crudeness?

[devilgrrl]

35. No, it's not just you. Wingnut Women are sleazier than their male counterparts.

:puke:

[riverdeep]

49. They specifically look for women

who will say these things, so the charge of sexism seems muted. Look, it's a woman saying this, so it's got to be true. In their hearts, such as they are, they're saying the same things or worse, just not in public.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Geez, She's As Dumb As A Fencepost

I cannot fathom how she became someone that ANYBODY listens to.
The Professor

[Breeze54]

89. Not dumb but as sly as a (Faux!) - "The Bitch Is Back"

She's someone I have always thought lately, (in the last few years) , as DEAD!

Hell! The Bitch! The Bitch! The Bitch! The Bitch!

The Bitch! IS BACK!!! :puke:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Bitch Is Back

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elton+john/the+bitch+is+back_20046531.html

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album caribou

I was justified when I was FIVE
Raising cane, I spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fevers gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

Eat meat on friday thats alright
Even like steak on a saturday night
I can bitch the best at your social dos
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

Im a bitch, Im a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
`cause Im better than you
Its the way that I move
The things that I do

I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I dont like those, my god, whats that
Oh its full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back

That bitch needs to put a sock in it!!

OR

[benld74]

10. Spread 'em and forget 'em Right YA B*tch?

[Bluerthanblue]

11. she is

a very disturbed individual.
..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................AH!!!!

self-delete

[LynneSin]

12. Her son is gay and promotes the anti-gay marriage agenda?

From Wikipedia:

In 1992, her eldest son, John, was publicly outed as a gay man by Michelangelo Signorile. John Schlafly is an attorney who has worked with her at the Eagle Forum and as such, has been partly responsible for promoting the group's anti-same-sex marriage agenda. Her son remains director of the Alton, Illinois, office and accompanies her on some of her public engagements. John Schlafly has never actively sought to conceal his sexual orientation.

How self-loathing must that man be?

[Phredicles]

15. Hey, if I were carrying around Phyllis Schafly's genes,

I'd loathe mayself too.:puke:

[blondeatlast]

13. Schlafly is everything she hates--successful, career-oriented, (once) powerful--and female.

She loathes herself and continually proves it to everyone but herself.

As for the "inherent physical inferiority" part she's demonstrably wrong.

She has a cult of fawning self-loathing women surrounding her so she has no idea that she's wrong and that the women's movement has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams of it's failure (even though we have a long, long way to go yet). She's a caricature of an era long gone.

That she's even considered quotable now is mind-boggling. She hasn't had a fresh idea in 2 1/2 decades.

[hobbit709]

17. She didn't have a fresh idea back then either

Prime example of having one original thought in a lifetime and it got lonely and left in search of company.

[blondeatlast]

21. True that. nt

[Bluerthanblue]

26. she is complicit-

words like hers only seek to keep women in submissive, unhealthy, too often deadly relationships.
Attitudes like hers teach women to be doormats.

She betrays women with her self-destructive garbage.

a sad fool-


peace,
blu

[htuttle]

14. She needs to stop viewing her gender through the lens of her own limitations

I'm sorry, Phyllis, if you can't cope in the world, but plenty of women are much stronger and smarter than you. It's not their fault you're a pathetic mess.

[Scout]

41. best post in the thread! can I recommend this one? n/t

[MikeNearMcChord]

16. Phylis, I think you are in the wrong country

This is not Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. a whole generation of women

believed this crap.

I was told essentially the same thing by my pastors wife in the late 50s , early 60s when I told her my husband was abusing me physically , mentally , emotionally and sexually.

I am now an unmarried athiest.

[riderinthestorm]

19. Clearly she is a woman who has never visited a women's shelter

or spoken with or read any accounts of women who HAVE been raped by their husbands cause you know, rape never happens to Republican women. :eyes: And obviously she doesn't know any women soldiers or firefighters or cops or.....

I can't imagine going through life with these kinds of blinders.

[guitar man]

33. she can't worry her beautiful mind

about such things..... :eyes:

[TahitiNut]

83. Thank God. She's the LAST thing I'd wish on those women.

Having worked with the SARC, I'd be as inclined to keep her away as the guys. :shrug:

[Breeze54]

90. She STOPPED the ERA from being passed!!!!

What a K*n*t she is!!

Women are property, don't you know??!! SUBMIT!!! :sarcasm:

and

Bombing for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity!!!

What a worthless piece of dung! :grr:

[Le Taz Hot]

20. Schlafly has been saying this shit for years.

She was the mouthpiece for the conservatives during the ERA debates. What's really frightening was that she was speaking at Bates College. What the hell were THEY thinking and why would anyone attend without protesting her?

[zbdent]

22. I'm sure she ALWAYS consented ...

:eyes:

[Lint Head]

23. Rape is an act of violence.

Rape is an act of violence not love. No means no.
:dem:

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. This "woman" was, is, and always will be

a raving lunatic. I can't believe there are people in this country who still think like that.

Uh, Honey - if he forces you into sex, no matter who he is, IT'S RAPE!

[TZ]

25. Lincoln abolished slavery last I heard..

maybe that little fact escaped this idiot. :puke:

[MUAD_DIB]

27. Wow. Just wow. This woman has more in common with Iran's hardline

mullahs than with majority Americans.


Why do people do this to themselves? It took women thousands upon thousands of years to get a little equality and she wants to throw that all away?

[guitar man]

34. that' exactly what conservatives want to do

to somehow undo progress, it's not just her, it's their entire agenda.

[ourbluenation]

28. the law says otherwise so who cares what this old crone thinks...

[Cabcere]

29. Cabcere: Phyllis Schlafly is an idiot. n/t

[madrchsod]

30. one of illinois`s finest!

"she lives in a time of her own...." actually no one pays any attention to her because most of the people who thought she was credible are dead and the rest of them are just brain dead

[kevinbgoode]

59. I'm sure this overbearing "traditionalist" who ran around the

country urging housewives to bake pies for legislators to remind them what a good little "real" woman can do for a man in the kitchen. . .is likely (if we use the conservative claim about homosexual "choice") the environmental reason for her son's sexual orientation. We should be blaming her aggressive attitude for sacrificing her own child to the dark side - and then ask her exactly what "wifely and motherly" attribute would cause a true traditional wife and mama to do something so utterly atrocious.

I'd love to know what the students said after her lunacy. Next up - alien abductees demand equal time to speak on college campuses to refute christianist creation theories. . .hehehe.

[LiberalFighter]

31. When was the last time she has had sex?

Why did she stop having children after only 6?

[raccoon]

36. Is that right-wing nincompoop still around? She should be retired by now.

Retired from shooting off her mouth and telling other women to stay home and be submissive while she's off speaking someplace, that is.

:puke: :puke:

[LynnTheDem]

37. Why do rightwingnuts hate Hitler, when their views are so identical?

Rightwingnut = rightwingnut = rightwingnut.

As in Stupidest MFers ever.

Period.

[redqueen]

38. They only pretend to... or they're in denial. Conservatives LOVED Hitler

before he got outed as evil. They loved fascism then and still do now, as has been made all too obvious over the past 6 years.

They try to pretend they're not evil, but they have to know they are... they just have to, on some level.

[redqueen]

39. I can't believe she's not ashamed to say those things.

What an evil, heartless, stupid woman.

[mzmolly]

40. OMG

:wow: I'm speechless, and that's rare.

[JHB]

42. Now there's a living history lesson

Keep this one in mind whenever someone grouses at the "excesses" of feminism:

Schafly's view used to be the norm in this country until the 70s and 80s, and it was a long, hard fight to change things.

More proof "the good old days" were only good to some people.

[Forkboy]

43. This woman has been stupid for decades.

Why stop now?

[VelmaD]

44. And we're quoting her on DU why?

*confused look*

She's a leftover from a bygone and best forgotten era. She was pointless back in the day and she's pointless now and if I never see her name or hear her idiotic ramblings ever again it will be too soon.

[ComerPerro]

45. God, I am SOOOO glad RW women are saying insane shit like this

maybe this will shock some of the sheep awake, but I doubt it.

[SeattleGirl]

47. Oh my gawd, she's still around? Is she still wearing Saran Wrap?

:puke:

[GreenPartyVoter]

48. I can't believe my state let her in

[SemperEadem]

50. and how many times has her husband repeatedly raped her?

Getting married in no way means that you automatically consent to sex on demand--there is nothing in the wedding vows which say one "will make their vagina available any time to their husband".

"She also noted that women have an “inherent physical inferiority” and should not be firefighters, soldiers, or construction workers: “Women in combat are a hazard to other people around them."


In the words of Queen Elizabeth I: "My sex does not diminish my prestige".

[TommyO]

51. My Tae Kwon Do instructor, and her mentors

put the lie of "inherent physical inferiority" to rest - they could kick any man's ass.

Schlafly needs to figure out why she has such a poor image of herself and other women and correct that.

[spanone]

52. Dear women of the world, this lass is trying to set your rights back to the stone ages.

[riverdeep]

53. Next from Schlafly, what are these

young harlots doing walking around in slacks? Don't they know it's unladylike?

A la Dr. Evil-just zip it, zip it good.

[Longhorn]

54. This woman is the reason I became a Democrat when I was 18.

I was raised to be a Republican like my parents but I figured out very soon that there is no way I could be in the same party as Phyllis Schlafly. Of course, since then, I've realized that there are many other Republican views with which I strongly disagree!

[Yavin4]

55. This Is What RWers Believe, Esp. Anti-Abortionists

This philosophy is in keeping with their beliefs. Women are the property of the husband, and feminism, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights are an affront to their property rights.

This is why the Anti-Abortionist movement is largely lead by men.

[kevinbgoode]

56. "Married women can’t be raped by their husbands"

well....no....as long as they marry their vibrator. . .

[Breeze54]

92. Vibrators don't protect women from rapists;

but guns and boiling, hot water do! ;)

As does rejecting any SchafT-LIES from the human race!

Or any other remedy that isn't pleasant.... for her!!!

[kestrel91316]

57. Isn't that wicked old harridan dead YET???

[Sacajawea]

85. That was my first thought. She was already a hag back in the '70s. nt

[Lurking Dem]

58. Dear Phyllis,

Rape has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with sex.

Marriage to my husband does not mean I consent to assault and battery.

[NashVegas]

60. I Cannot Believe She Still Gets a Microphone

She's been spouting this line for 20 years.

At least now she qualifies it with "I think ..."

[JerseygirlCT]

61. Who in the world thought to invite that idiot to speak?

At a college?

Good grief.

She needs to just realize she's ancient history, and go away. Permanently.

[wicket]

62. What a lunatic!

:crazy:

[jmowreader]

63. I know where she's coming from

In the strange little world of Phyllis Schafly, the marriage license is actually a license for the husband to do anything he wants to his wife, any way he wants to do it and any time he wants to do it.

Which makes me wonder what variety of perverted shit Phyllis Schafly's into, because you KNOW there's something we're not being told there.

OTOH, we can pretty much assume that Mr. Schafly's husband's favorite position is/was "back to back." It's lots of fun and highly stimulating. 'Course, he has to invite Mary from next door over to help...

[Aristus]

64. Women shouldn't have careers telling women they shouldn't have careers.

Or at least this woman.


Crazy-ass bitch.

[frazzledmom]

66. Yeah, funny how this woman and Coulter and that new hag

on Faux's Red Eye show all seem to think that women should be home barefoot and pregnant yet they have made careers off the backs of women who did the leg work for them. Maybe it's because they can't seem to find a man who wants to get them pregnant.

[ProfessorGAC]

71. Gender Neutral

People should say what they do, not what they get paid to say.
The Professor

[gollygee]

65. I certainly didn't consent to sex under any circumstances and at any time

my god who gives this woman a stage

[Solly Mack]

67. PS is a despicable piece of shit. Now back to the hearing with me

[opihimoimoi]

68. PS is a POS...and shouldn't be heard.....she should crawl back under the ROCK.....

BTW, she gatta be 95 or so....looks like shit....

[Frank Cannon]

69. Gawd, is that woman still running her yap

I thought the country got tired of her thirty-some years ago.

Instead of gallivanting around the country spewing her nonsense, she should be home cooking her husband three squares a day and making sure he has plenty of clean underwear neatly folded in his drawer. And she should do it in submissive, respectful silence.

[peacetalksforall]

70. OK. Let's rename it - how about redpa - with this definition:

REDPA - sexual intercourse similar to rape but where the person raping is married to the person raped as opposed to RAPED where the person raped is not married to the raper.

[juno jones]

72. WHAT WILL WOMEN WANT NEXT?

UNISEX BATHROOMS! boogaboogaboogabooga!

[bumblebee1]

86. Unisex bathrooms????

Oh Phyllis, there is a place that has unisex bathrooms. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's the island nation of Japan.

[xchrom]

73. i hate that woman with every fiber of my being.

she is a vicious, rabid tapeworm -- :grr: :puke: :grr:

[BlooInBloo]

75. Not the worst choice of people to hate with every fiber. What a monstrosity.

[xchrom]

77. i lived in illinois whe she was working against the E.R.A. there.

i organized -- i marched -- i handed out literature -- i did everthing i could to get passed what i still think is the most important ammendment to our constItution yet to be passed.

i witnessed first hand the lies about unisex bathrooms and our armed services and the effect they had on the population{not unlike saddam = al qaida} and how that vote went down.

my life will never, ever be long enough to forgive that tapeworm.

[BlooInBloo]

82. Aaahh.... The fond memories I have of Peoria....

Ah... who am I kidding? No one has fond memories of Peoria. Though Richard Pryor's childhood took that to extremes.

[xchrom]

93. peoria

:scared: :puke:

[Ilsa]

74. Isn't she dead yet from being physically inferior?

Why does anyone in their right mind invite this nasty woman to speak to their group?

I guess she hasn't visited the gym at the Pentagon and more than a few other places. There are women in those gyms that can bench press 2-3 times Phyllis' body weight (and their own).

[BlooInBloo]

76. What waste of oxygen - talk about destroying our environment.

[underseasurveyor]

78. All I can say is that me thinks this phyllis person and I

Would fight:evilgrin:

[DesertRat]

80. She's never heard me bark out orders.

:evilgrin:

"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."

[SalmonChantedEvening]

81. Phyllis Schafly:The Flying Monkey Right's Tokyo Rose n/t

[supernova]

84. To all the men on this thread

who think PS is so over and done ... I love you! :loveya: :loveya:

It brings a tear of relief to my feminine baby blues that there are such kind men in this world.

Here's to you all - :toast: :toast:

[Breeze54]

87. FUCK Phyllis Schlafly UP THE YING - YANG!!

I can't believe I'm even seeing that fucking bitches name on DU!!!

But if you insist, then...so do I!!

What a C**n*T-aloupe!!


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[nam78_two]

88. ugh.nt

[Random_Australian]

94. What next? Women should avoid wanton displays of ankle?

But seriously, if horrific acts of violence and psychological ruin are not wrong, what the fuck is?

It's the very definition of all that is wrong, sick, and thoroughly fucked up.

:puke:

Sick.

:puke:

:puke::puke::puke::puke:

Vile.

[leftyclimber]

96. Back in the '70s, when I asked my mom who Phyllis Schlafly was

she told me, "She's a lawyer who thinks other women shouldn't be allowed to have jobs."

I think that pretty much sums her up. :eyes:

[semillama]

97. She reminds me of some lyrics by a Finnish band-Varttina

From the song "Marilaulu"

The old hags nag with their jaws clanking.
I should cut out their tongues and fill up their mouths with hot tin.

Of course, if you don't speak Finnish, you would never guess from the cheerful, up tempo melody and rhythms of the tune what they were actually singing.