Phyllis tells it like it is!
Posted on 04/15/2005 12:40:21 PM PDT by Willie Green
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Irony has never been so transparent.
The visit of conservative and self-proclaimed anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly to Penn State Wednesday has been denied by Young Americans for Freedom as a counter to Take Back the Night but acknowledged as a "happy coincidence."
While 200 people marched through campus to fight rape and sexual assault, Schlafly spoke to a group of 100 listeners about why women should carry guns to deter such crime.
The absurdity that 20,000 female college students should need to carry firearms to protect themselves from rape is as obvious as it is outrageous.
In fact, it is hardly worth a rebuttal.
Truth is, rape and sexual assault are not political issues. They are issues of safety. No woman, conservative or liberal, should need to carry concealed weapons to ensure her safety.
Despite not mentioning Take Back the Night during her speech, Schlafly's presence on campus clearly demonstrates the need for such activism.
Those who participated in Take Back the Night should be commended for taking a stand against an issue that is too often ignored by public officials.
And those participants should be motivated by the festering ignorance of public figures such as Schlafly, who uses hypocrisy to gain a following.
This woman, who holds a law degree and was appointed to the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution from 1985 to 1991 by President Ronald Reagan, says that women should stay home instead of pursuing a career.
It is ridiculous to ask women, half of this country's work force, to delay their careers until each of their children graduates from high school.
Schlafly said in her speech that feminists seek preferential treatment for women, not equality for all. She even said that feminism is the "big lie of the century." This is a statement made out of pure ignorance of the feminist movement. Ask any women's studies professor or student.
"Feminism," along with liberalism, has been thrown into the grab bag of progressive terms that have been twisted into carrying a negative connotation.
To be a feminist does not require one to participate in bra burning and flag-waving protests. So-called anti-feminists such as Schlafly perpetuate the myth of feminists being radical women.
True feminists speak up when they encounter discrimination. They fight for equality of all people, and they hold peaceful demonstrations against sexual assault. Feminism is about equal opportunity for women, gays and lesbians, minorities, and any other oppressed group.
Anything else is a lie.
I see that the editors took the WHOLE bottle of Stupid Pills this morning.
Too bad colleges haven't really focused on readin', writin' and intelligent thought for the last twenty years...
Yeah, and I shouldn't have to work to have a nice house and a nice car and all the beer I can drink.
They fight for equality of all people, and they hold peaceful demonstrations against sexual assault.
And exactly how many rapes and sexual assaults has that stopped? Zippo...
white males are an oppressed group.
Translation: We'll ram our politically correct, brain-dead mind-fart down your throat whether you want us to or not...
Hey! Don't go confusing the mindless little Leftist goosesteppers with the facts...
Absurd? I expect there would be precious few rapes at Penn State if the entire female student body took to packing heat. I don't agree with a lot of things Phyllis Schlafly says, but she's right on the mark with this advice.
The only weapen women have is to be decent and say NO! They are just as guilty as the guys.
well, for discussion anyway.
That was a classic goose-step two-step. First, make a utopian statement with no basis in reality: No woman, conservative or liberal, should need to carry concealed weapons to ensure her safety. Then, show that they only need to be active enough to change the world: They fight for equality of all people, and they hold peaceful demonstrations against sexual assault.
If you look at just about every liberal nutbar position, they follow that two-step process.
The absurdity that 20,000 female college students should need to carry firearms to protect themselves from rape is as obvious as it is outrageous.
'20,000' of them don't have to. As long as a few do, or even as long as some might, the mere possibility of getting shot acts as a deterrent.
Of course some of these poor souls will start wearing pink armbands or something to indicate that they oppose the use of guns, thereby indicating that they're unarmed. Might as well just get targets tattooed on their foreheads.
Wrong. Rape happened long before feminism. Lots of innocent women minding their own business have been attacked by predators. And the only way to deter them is by force or threat of force, with imprisonment afterwards.
There is no reasoning in this piece, just name-calling. The writer might just as well have jumped up and down screaming "Nuh-uh."
Phyllis tells it like it is!
I mentioned that the writers of the statement must have taken their Stupid Pills this morning.
I kind of lean towards both a Ruger 9 AND a Street Sweeper on a sling for the ladies, myself. ;-)
As the so-called Million Mom March was letting out in Denver once, we lined up just past the gates of their rally and warned them that they were going into a rough neighborhood and their T-shirts would indicate to muggers that they were unarmed and unable to fight back.
For some reason, they didn't like that one bit. I wonder why, I thought it was good advice...
Most feminazis pictured on this forum have no worries about being raped.....
As "115 grain castrati", hopefully. ;-)
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