Schlafly Tells Male Students at The Citadel not to Date Feminists

rightwingwatch.org ^ | 04/05/2012 | Kyle Mantyla

[grundle]

Yesterday, Phyllis Schlafly traveled to South Carolina to speak to at The Citadel, which now offers a course entitled the "Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America."

Speaking to an all-male audience, Schlafly assured them that women don't care about the issue of contraception and warned them not to date feminists:

The recent political flap about contraception being an important issue for women is completely contrived by Democrats and the media to divert attention from abortion and other important issues, said conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly.

“Contraception is not controversial,” she said. “The issue is not access. It’s who’s going to pay for it.”

Most women are concerned about issues such as jobs and religious liberty, Schlafly said, not issues being drummed up by feminists to foster support for President Barack Obama.

And feminists are working through the media and other channels because the American public no longer seems to strongly support their agenda, Schlafly said. “Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,” she said.

Schlafly talked to a group of Citadel students about the culture of conservatism and the history of the religious right. She told the all-male group that “feminist is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad.”

And she warned them about having personal relationships with feminists. “Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,” she said. “Some of them are pretty. They don’t all look like Bella Abzug.”

[Baynative]

[eclecticEel]

Now that the Citadel is co-ed how can women be excluded from a presentation?

Well, remember this is as reported by rightwingwatch; they have a habit of playing loose with the facts. The place is still 90% male, the audience for almost any presentation is going to be mostly male as well.

[relictele]

I suspected it but didn’t want to post conjecture.

[SeminoleCounty]

Phyllis Schafly makes sense...again

Sad part is that many so-called “conservatives” want nothing to do with her today

[kabumpo]

Newsflash: many men (not all) don’t care what a woman thinks or preferably doesn’t think about anything. To many men, the idea of having interests in common with a spouse has never occurred to them. They lead separate lives, him in guy world and her with the ladies. And bless them all if they are happy that way, knowing each other over dinner and in bed.

[dfwgator]

The Proverbs 31 woman is “accomplished” and ambitious and hard working without being like a modern “feminist”...

Schafly has accomplished more than all of the feminist activists combined. And she did it, long before feminists started burning their bras.

[xsmommy]

that concept is so foreign to me i can’t even conceive of it. guess i lead a sheltered life ; )

[Melas]

Let’s be honest here. What college age male gives a flying —— about what a 90 year old women says about dating? If we’re trying to perpetuate the stereotype that conservatives are old and out of touch, this is exactly how to do it.

[Verginius Rufus]

She’s only 88 years old.