Phyllis Schlafly: America's greatest Feminist 1924-2016

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America has lost one of its most important people several days ago. This courageous woman who is the last of the real feminists, a link in our history and particularly the history of the conservative movement is now lost.

I write this article this tribute to one of America's great matriarchs as a millennial, a member of a generation that as I said in a previous article is either a make or break for America, yet as I watch all the libtards, most of them millennials, celebrate and jeer at her death I can only conclude it is a lost cause.

I am more convinced of this as I research her life, her work and her legacy. In fact I want to share that on the day she died, September 6th she wrote one final article about Trump and his trip to Mexico where he recalls Reagan in Geneva. In this article, her last published words, I believe they are significant. Listen to what she writes before the lord called her back home:

Voters finally have the opportunity to choose a president who will make America first by securing our border and ending one-sided trade deals that favor foreign workers rather than our own. Trump's strong stance in his meeting with the Mexican president demonstrates that Donald Trump is the "choice, not an echo."

Its not a coincidence I believe that these are her last words. This is a make or break for America, Trump needs to build this wall and put a stop to the invasion of our homeland by illegal aliens and drug dealers who are wrecking our country, who come here to rob our people of jobs and leech of our welfare state. Rome was nowhere as lenient or as generous to the Visigoths or the huns and look what that lead to.

But getting back to millennials, we have no feminist icon the way baby boomers and Me generation did. In 80s, the only feminist icon, the lone voice in the wilderness was Phyllis Schlafly. I wasn't really born yet. I was born in 1986 but she was mother to the conservative movement that was coming back after years under the hippie movement. As she was mother to the me generation and the yuppies she is grandmother to the new generation of conservatives rising up.

Women today are hardly feminine in a true sense. Today's women believe that there role is to pleasure a boy and have an orgasm at least once a day. They hang on to a boy for awhile and then move on as a bee moves on to the next flowers. The women in my generation are not feminine. They are either sluts or they are masculine, they think its cool to defy the role that God had intended, as help meet to their husbands, as lovers, as mothers as a guidance to the women of future generations on how to be matriarchs and mothers.

Feminism in the time of our forefathers meant something else, it meant chastity and honor. The suffagettes of the 10s and 20s and the 19th century were certainly feminine. They were godly women who opposed abortion, alcohol, sodomy and other evils. They were jeered as do-gooders and killjoys and many of those who opposed the 19th amendent to the constitution were afraid of them having a voice only because they feared of ruining their fun. It came too late as the decadent roaring 20s took hold in America.

They only got one thing wrong, prohibition. An honest attempt to curtail drinking and alcoholism that ruined marriages, destroyed lives and livelihoods that motivated many of these women who had lost their husbands and marriages to evil liquor unfortunately made the problem worse and gave rise to black markets and criminal enterprise through Al Capone and others. The consequences were not fully known. We can forgive them for that.

The right for women to vote opened a new voting bloc in our nation when it was needed the most. Women voters back then were conservative, they were moral, yes they did at times go too far demanding that government do more to safeguard Christian morals and virtues but even men in that country forgot that government is a dangerous force to be reckoned with and should not always be looked upon as a guardian of morals. Often as we have seen, it is a corrupter of morals.

The feminists of old are a far cry from what the post-modern mind considers to be a feminist. Feminism was not about women being on the same par as men, about being on a platform and holding high leadership like men or being sluts gyrating and swishing their bodies or "bods" as they called it to seduce a man and his wallet. No, it was about preserving the role of the woman as wife, mother and a keeper of spiritual and moral guidance, particularly to the future generations of young women.

This is the America that Phyllis Schlafly fought for. The America that Phyllis Schlafly tried to preserve against the tide of moral relativism and perversion.

Schlafly will be remembered however for her two greatest accomplishments, as a founding mother of the home school movement, at a time when government and a growing liberal menace threatened its existence despite the collapse and failure of public schools and as the woman who almost single handedly defeated the so called Equal rights amendment.

The Equal rights amendment had nothing to do with equal rights, it had nothing to do with protecting women, it was about creating as Schlafly put it, an androgynous society. This kind of society is something that no real woman of feminine virtues could cope with or survive in.

The ERA would destroy protections for women especially those most needy such as divorcees, widows and elderly women, it would prevent them from receiving aid and assistance, it would prevent them from functioning as caretakers, housewives an other traditional roles. And lets face it! Most woman would prefer to be a wife and mother at home rather than a career girl or a doctor or lawyer. Even my own wife, would prefer the quiet carefree life of living at home with the children and relaxing with a soap opera while I go about my business.

Today, as America's republic lays in darkness she will be remembered for ushering in a dawn of a new day under Donald J Trump. Schlafly and the Eagle Forum has been one of Trump's biggest supporters and her actions will have a great effect in the election of this great leader.

Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter unto the kingdom!

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

1924-2016 

[PGalt]

R.I.P. Phyllis Schlafly. Thanks.

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[LS]

We gave Schlafley two pages in “A Patriot’s History of the US,” and three in “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World”.

[Robert DeLong]

The definition for feminist is: a person who supports feminism

The definition for feminism is: the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

So I am not sure I can agree labeling her as a feminist.

But she was indeed a great women who fought for respect for femininity, which is even more important than the feminist battle.

[mainestategop]

That's more of a modern definition. A post-modern definition to be precise.

Feminism in its true sense is support for femininity. Women are of equal worth as human beings but their roles are not equal.

The so called feminists we think of and that you're definition describes advocates and androgynous society, the kind that lets men like Bruce Jenner cut off their schmendrix so they can go to the bathroom with your daughter the kind of women who don't really want to BE women...

Does that help?

[Rummyfan]

Phyllis Schlafly was truly a feminist. Almost single-handedly she took on the President, the Congress, and a majority of the state legislatures and stopped the ERA. She self-published A Choice, Not An Echo which went on to sell over a million copies. In her fifties, after having and raising six children she want back to school and got a law degree and continued the fight for conservative principles. That my Freeper friends, is one hell of a woman! Not Gloria Steinem, or Betty Friedan, or Germaine Greer, or Jane Fonda!

[mainestategop]

AMEN! I’m afraid we may never see her kind again though.

[IronJack]

The world didn’t “lose” Phylis Schlafly. She spent her life, her considerable talents, and her unbounded energy giving the world a true female paragon worthy of emulation. Her writings, her speeches, her forum ... none of those are “lost,” and, God willing, never will be.

People die. Great ideas do not.

[Robert DeLong]

One has to go back to the late 1800's and early 1900's (which is before Phyllis Schlafly was born) to see feminist in the terms you are applying as the meaning.

Also, just for the record Bruce Jenner has not yet had the surgery to remove the sexual organ he was born with.

When the term feminism first entered the English language, toward the mid-19th century it meant “feminine qualities or character,” a sense no longer in use. (Its companion term, feminist, also entered the language around that time, but it is not certain whether it was then used to mean anything other than “feminine or womanly.”) However, toward the end of the 19th century, both feminism and feminist unambiguously took on their modern meanings related to equal rights for women. Activists of the late 19th and early 20th century, now considered to be first-wave feminists, campaigned for women’s right to vote, or suffrage, and members of the movement were known as suffragettes or, more generally, suffragists. Even though the term feminist was not widely used during this period, there also were broad-ranging efforts to advance women’s right to work outside the home, to freely enter professions, and to own property.

It wasn’t until the 1960s and '70s, in the United States, amid the sexual revolution, that the terms feminist and feminism gained widespread use. This period, considered to be the second wave of feminism, saw the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, the debate over reproductive rights, and the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW). While feminists questioned and challenged their prescribed roles in society, many antifeminists viewed this movement as threatening to traditional American family values. The semantics mattered: In 1970s polling, the majority of respondents were in favor of “women’s rights,” but less supportive when the labels “feminism” or “women’s liberation” were used.

In the late 1980s and early '90s, a period emerged that was characterized as postfeminist. Though the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by a sufficient number of states to become law, some people believed that many of its goals had been achieved, and they thus considered feminism passé. The June 1998 cover of Time magazine asked in dramatic bold letters, "Is Feminism Dead?” Activists of this era — also known as third-wave feminists — were more globally oriented and more inclusive of women of color, lesbians, transgender people, and other marginalized groups.

Supporters of gender equality in the early 2000s were less likely to self-identify as feminists. Some perceived the label feminist as exclusionary, misandrist, or anachronistic. However, the popularity of the word feminist may be on the rise again, as evidenced by its more open embrace by pop culture celebrities. But in a climate where women who call themselves feminists may be admired by some but singled out by others for harassment or threats of violence, we are faced with the challenge of affirming the core meaning of feminism, without its cultural and historical baggage, especially of the 20th century. Do you agree that women should have the same social, political, and economic rights as men? If you do, then you are in agreement with feminist ideals, even though you may still prefer to disavow the label.

[Karl Spooner]

DONALD TRUMP to Attend Phyllis Schlafly Funeral – Express Condolences

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[Sam Gamgee]

So sad. Not only a great feminist but great conservative mind.