Right-wing icon Schlafly: Feminism is ‘the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today.’

[struggle4progress]

Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist who heads the Eagle Forum, hosted the right-wing conference How To Take Back America last weekend. Several GOP members of Congress attended the conference, and each paid their respects to Schlafly for her leadership in the conservative movement. Schlafly delivered several speeches and led a discussion advocating traditional roles for women as well as warning about the dangers of feminism and blasting single mothers:

I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today ...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/29/schlafly-feminism/

[Ptah]

1. Jeannette Rankin would disagree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman
to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first female
member of the Congress sometimes referred to as the Lady of the House. A lifelong
pacifist, she voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I
and World War II, the only member of Congress to vote against the latter.
To date, she is the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana.

[struggle4progress]

4. Women in Congress

http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/

[donco6]

2. Oh Phooey on that.

Everyone knows homosexuality is the most dangerous destructive force in our society. Where DOES she get this crap?

[MountainLaurel]

3. What a waste of oxygen

I love how she quantifies the evil in America -- the gays are apparently only causing 5% of problems. Who knew?

[ShadowLiberal]

5. I do believe he means 'conservatism' is actually the most dangerous destructive force in our society

Really, is there a more self destructive ideology then today's conservatism the GOP follows? I mean look at all of the dangers in it.

-All tax hikes are bad, and all budget balancing must be done by cutting spending, all tax cuts must be permanent. Can you imagine if the first congress under the constitution took that self destructive approach, "well we can't possibly raise taxes because it'll ruin the economy, so lets move onto something else, so what if we don't have any taxes or any way for the federal government to collect money, and so what if the articles of confederation left us with millions of dollars in unpaid debt at the federal level".

-Relating to the above, it's just fine to do stuff like cut taxes while you already have a $500 billion dollar deficit, and to spend more on unnecessary wars. Yet at the same thing spending money to fix a broken economy is as bad as raising taxes, instead we should give more tax cuts to people, even if they didn't help stop the economy from going bad in the first place! Oh and those tax cuts have to be permanent to, or else you know, you'll screw up the economy even more.

-Hating people for what they're born as, such as for being born gay, is perfectly fine, and making it a hate crime to commit violent acts against people for being gay is a violation of freedom of religion. Oh, and at the same time we must outlaw abortions, because you know we want to save lives, so what if hate crimes and the death penalty can kill innocent lives to?

-Any nation who doesn't do what we want when it comes to WMD, or who we even suspect of not doing what we want involving WMD is allowing us to declare war on it, because after all we're the WMD police, even though there's the UN for resolving those kinds of conflicts.

And there's lots more areas to where conservatism causes it's own self destructive problems in the nation if what it wants gets enacted into law.

[sofa king]

10. I'll say this.

Pretending that the old days of cheap oil and infinite habitat to destroy and exploit are still here will be the best and fastest way to put conservatism to bed for several hundred years. The old and the stupid will be the first to go, which strips membership in the Republican Party by at least 50% right there, and anyone else who survives won't want to remember the "good old days" to come.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. If that's the case, why is Schlafly hosting conferences instead of...

teaching her granddaughters how to cook and please their men?

[struggle4progress]

7. The depth of Schlafly's "thought-processes" can be accurately gauged by recalling

that her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment was based on her bizarre fear that it would lead to unisex bathrooms

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I remember that, and I think I read it shortly after...

taking the piss in a unisex bathroom.

[juno jones]

9. It's so funny.

There's lots of unisex bathrooms about today.
I don't see the world coming to an end because men and women use the same can while shopping Trader Joe's.