In 2007, Phyllis Schlafly said that married women "consent to sex" and that it's not rape

Phyllis Schlafly, founder of Eagle Forum and leader of opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, controversially said in 2007: "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape" during a lecture "Conservativism vs. Feminism: The Great Debate" at Bates College in Maine. This isn't the one disgusting thing she said that day.

She also said: "Women in combat are a hazard to other people around them. 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." Generally: "For nearly two hours, she belittled the feminist movement as 'teaching women to be victims,' decried intellectual men as 'liberal slobs' and argued that feminism 'is incompatible with marriage and motherhood.'"

Seriously? Intellectual men who can think beyond the Bible and good ol' traditional Leave It to Beaver family values as "liberal slobs"? She sure knows how to talk that trash!

A year later, in an interview prior to receiving an honorary doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis (where she received a law degree in 1978), Schlafly defended her POV:



In contrast, as a US Senator, Vice President Joe Biden helped get his home state Delaware to stop using marriage as an exemption when prosecuting rape cases. Source: Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption by Jules Witcover, pp. 310-313.

Sadly, this "redefining rape" thing is hardly a new trend that began with Chris Smith's idiotic use of "forcible rape"; what's worse is that some women have no problem openly glorifying the old days of the submissive, inferior-to-man woman.

That old harridan needs to shut the fuck up.

If feminists hadn't happened, she'd not have the national platform she now enjoys.

Jeez.

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Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing, according to her?

Schlafly is high on the list.

I remember discussing it in sex ed in high school at the time. It was a big deal then and it's still a big deal.

http://www.co.marion.or.us/DA/victimassistance/Sexual+Assault/The+Truth+About+Rape+and+Relationships.htm

Greta Rideout was the first plaintiff to successfully have her husband indicted for raping her.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/13228/Oregon-v-Rideout.html

tell kids dinner. gotta project. ya, kids will argue whether i can be heard.

She towers over all the men I know and could lift me with one hand. She's also smart as a whip, funny, and gorgeous. She could squash Schlafly like a bug.

it is close enough to combat for you to crap your pants, I guarantee it.

As to barking orders... you'd be shocked.

Just ask Mother Jones.

Hey, Schlafly? Even the FBI recognizes marital rape as a real and criminal phenomenon. Is the FBI wrong to classify it such?

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZhZdlxufjQMC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=FBI+marital+rape&source=bl&ots=C4vqD62fDM&sig=Bvw1LK3O65VKVOOQzWkgGkfFJjo&hl=en&ei=xEtUTdGaLIG4sAPF_6zhCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=FBI%20marital%20rape&f=false

Hope that links works and is not too messy. I felt the need to include something, because I have come across ignorant posts on other websites claiming the FBI does not record and has never recorded data on marital rape specifically.

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