Posted on 07/10/2020 6:55:57 PM PDT by Ennis85
When she first welcomed British 'morality' campaigner Mary Whitehouse to her home town of St Louis, Missouri, in December 1972, America's own self-appointed moral guardian, Phyllis Schlafly, might have wondered whether she was looking at a mirror image of herself.
Both favouring twin-sets, the two women also sported stiffly lacquered hairstyles — but the similarities between them went far beyond their prim appearance.
Middle-aged matrons they might have been, but both were experts at — and relished — riling their opponents.
Hugh Carleton-Greene, the BBC's director-general between 1960 and 1969, was so often provoked by Whitehouse that he bought a caricature of her, naked with six breasts, and threw darts at it in his office.
As for Schlafly, a Roman Catholic mother of six who was the scourge of America's feminists, she would begin her speeches by first thanking her husband, Fred, for allowing her to attend whichever gathering she was addressing.
'I like to say that, because I know it irritates women's libbers more than anything else,' she admitted.
'And it certainly worked. The Feminine Mystique author and activist Betty Friedan once described Schlafly as a 'witch' whom she'd like to see 'burned at the stake'.
Back in 1972, Whitehouse was in the U.S. to discuss sex education in schools. In Schlafly's view, such classes were akin to providing 'sales parties for abortions'.
But at the time, the American's attention had been diverted to what was to become her most controversial fight of all — an attempt to thwart the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) legislation guaranteeing women equality under the U.S. Constitution.
That epic battle is the subject of Mrs America, a big-budget new drama series set to air on BBC2 from next week, starring Cate Blanchett — in real life a vocal feminist — as Schlafly.
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And why should that make someone change their stance on same-sex "marriage"? Also I'm pretty sure there was no mainstream movement to redefine marriage back then either.
My, how tolerant.
Feminazis are NOT pro-woman. They are PRO-Marxist and told girls to slut it up a bit.
Feminazis are NOT pro-woman. They are PRO-Marxist and told girls to slut it up a bit.
morality put in quotation marks... how telling...
Indeed. People claiming to be Christians who have changed their mind about homosexuality because someone they love is a homosexual essentially abandon all possibility to influence that person to repent and be saved.
They also choose friendship with the world and enmity towards the Lord even if they don’t realize it.
In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer's father remained opposed to murder and cannibalism even after his son came out as a murderer and a cannibal.
So called feminists hate Phyllis Schafly, yet venerate Margaret Sanger.
Psychotic, evil, and absolutely the worst examples of what women can be; but feminists are so sure of themselves, aren’t they?
These commies are certifiably insane.
I’ll always think affectionately of Cate as the Goddess of Death
Yep.
Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters to name a few, all stellar examples of the new enlightened age of women.
So I assume it will be like the “Iron Lady” movie hoping to belittle the subject?
I still liked Maggie after that, in fact, maybe more.
So under the new “rules”, is someone who is not of the same religious belief and political views of the individual who they are playing allowed to do that?
She was so influential they must attack her corpse.
In fact the "STOP" in "STOP ERA" stood for "Stop Taking Our Privileges". At whose expense do you think those privileges were preserved?
All of those other goals, whether it be homosexual marriage or anything else, happened anyway without the ERA. The only goal of hers that was accomplished was to preserve the bias against you.
THIS PARODY IS A FEMANAZI HIT PIECE. DON’T Waste money to see it.
Real ‘Mrs. America’ Phyllis Schlafly Blazed the Trail for Conservative Women Like Me
https://theresurgent.com/2020/04/27/real-mrs-america-phyllis-schlafly-blazed-the-trail-for-conservative-women-like-me/
The Story of Phyllis Schlafly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HazTs0n0xi0
The Story of Phyllis Schlafly
On the Wings of an Eagle: The Story of Phyllis Schlafly
Eagle Forum Copyright 1994 https://eagleforum.org/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=296249291041782
I guess if they don’t, by the same stupid measure that the Left uses for homosexuality applied to addicts, they are addictophobic.
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