Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
Day of Reckoning for Violence Against Women Act
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 2 on a straight party-line vote. That proves again that the feminists control the Democratic Party, and also is a refreshing indication that Republicans are no longer intimidated by feminist demands. VAWA [...]
“Gender-neutral” Childrearing: When a Sexual Hang-up Leads to Child Abuse
BY SELWYN DUKE First there was “Pop” in Sweden, then “Storm” in Canada. Now out of Britain comes Sasha, a boy, we hear, who is being raised by his parents in a “sex-neutral” fashion. And this isn’t just your modernistic grandmother’s neutrality, where she didn’t want to push toy guns and trucks on her son. Sasha’s parents, [...]
Women in Direct Military Combat?
FEMINISM & THE MILITARY, PHYLISS SCHLAFLY REPORT U.S. law says that if the U.S. military plans to assign women to direct military combat, Congress must first be notified. The Obama Administration is scheming to find a way around this law and to send women into direct ground combat without telling Congress or the public. The push to get [...]
Female Heads of State Discuss How ‘Climate Change’ Hurts Women
But 'mum's the word' regarding gendercide (via sex-selective abortions) in China and India. PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM At a gathering of female heads of states, including the president of Finland and the former president of Ireland, the discussion focused on women’s rights, the importance of supporting “emerging” women leaders and how [...]
College May Be Dangerous for Men
By Phyllis Schlafly College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules. In another striking proof that the Obama Administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page Dear [...]
Can Women Balance Career and Motherhood?
By Phyllis Schlafly The trouble with many younger women is that they've been falsely taught by feminism to plan their life career in the workplace without any space or time for marriage, husband or children. They have a total lack of understanding of how demanding a new baby is, and also of how a baby can change its mother's attitude in regard [...]
Let’s Review the Violence Against Women Act
By Phyllis Schlafly The Violence Against Women Act, which was passed during the Clinton Administration, is in major need of revision. Its billion-dollar-a-year price tag is spent by the radical feminists to pursue their ideology and goals. It's known as feminist pork, so it should be an embarrassment to Members of Congress who voted for [...]
Let’s Fix the Violence Against Women Act
By Phyllis Schlafly A federal law called the Violence Against Women Act is now being considered by Congress for renewal, and it certainly needs major overhauling. We are all against domestic violence, but there are many problems with the way this law is enforced. Women who make accusations are not required to produce any evidence of violence, [...]
What Goes On at a NOW Convention?
By Phyllis Schlafly A reporter named Kayla Westbrook recently attended a conference of the National Organization for Women, called NOW, in Tampa, Florida, and she published her observations in National Review Online. She discovered that NOW doesn't promote women, but uses women as a cover for a radical progressive agenda. Those who have been [...]
Zombie Feminism and Prudish SlutWalkers
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Wendy McElroy Feminism is dead, and yet it lumbers forward in high-heeled shoes and cleavage-heaving costumes. SlutWalk is a worldwide phenomenon in which women parade through the streets in “slutty” clothes. It began as a backlash against a Toronto policeman who publicly declared that women should [...]
Feminists Have a Tantrum
By Phyllis Schlafly The feminists are having another tantrum. The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women and the New York Civil Liberties Union are squealing about a 64-page decisionin a workplace class-action suit brought by their friends in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The feminists are so accustomed to [...]
ERA Reintroduced in Congress
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a very sensible decision in a big case brought by the feminists against the giant company Wal-Mart. The feminists tried to patch together a class-action suit of a million and a half current and former female employees, and demand that damages be paid to all of them for alleged sex [...]
Don’t Spend Tuition Dollars on ‘Meathead’ Majors
By Phyllis Schlafly Harvey Mansfield is one conservative professor at Harvard University, and he recently wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal that is worth bringing to your attention, especially if you have a college student in your family. He points out that at colleges today, course choice is IN and requirements are OUT. Only the [...]
Feminism Keeps Men From Growing Up
By Phyllis Schlafly Many single women in their 20s and 30s have achieved what they thought was the feminist dream of getting more college degrees and making more money than most men. They are leading successful, exciting lives and seem to have it all, except one thing: a good husband. Where have all the good men gone? That's the question [...]
What We’ve Learned from the Budget Debate
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama's runaway spending is the top issue with grassroots Americans. The problem is a long way from solved, but we've learned a lot from the budget debate. U.S. voters are still vehement in demanding repeal of ObamaCare and the extra spending it includes. Support for Obama's signature legislation has dropped to [...]
Pushing Women into Military Combat
By Phyllis Schlafly The feminists in the Obama Administration are pushing hard to get women in the infantry, armor units, and direct combat with the enemy. Can you believe: the Pentagon has set up a Military Leadership Diversity Commission. It issued a report in March that it wants the military to resemble the ethnic makeup of America. [...]
Some Lies that Feminists Tell
By Phyllis Schlafly I never cease to be amazed at the falsehoods that the feminists repeat so often that they have gotten many people to believe them. Take, for example, feminists' statements about the U.S. Constitution. So many times when I debated the Equal Rights Amendment, my feminist opponent would say, we need to amend the [...]
Feminist Whining About Science Sexism
By Phyllis Schlafly For the last ten years, the feminists have been whining that women scientists are victims of sex discrimination. The essence of feminism is to complain that an oppressive patriarchy is preventing women from earning more money and getting the academic appointments and recognition they think they ought to have. The [...]
Learning the Facts About Feminism
By Phyllis Schlafly The ideology of feminism has poisoned the media, most college courses, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and even daily conversation. Feminism starts with the premise that women are victims of an unjust patriarchy and need government to help them. This is especially hurtful to young women because feminism teaches them to plan [...]
The Fraud of the Century
By Phyllis Schlafly Feminism is back in vogue as a controversial topic. The blogosphere and newspapers all over the country are debating the meaning of feminism – and what it means to be female and powerful. The female left always argues for women to be independent of men, self supporting, sexually uninhibited, and liberated from the [...]
Remembering the Super Bowl Hoax
By Phyllis Schlafly A few weeks ago we passed the 18th anniversary of an event that precipitated the passage in 1994 of the Violence Against Women Act (known as VAWA). The event is known as the Super Bowl Hoax, the assertion made on January 28, 1993 in Pasadena, California, with big media coverage, that more women are victims of domestic [...]
Feminist Devaluing of Fulltime Homemakers
By Phyllis Schlafly The most scholarly book written about the feminist movement by a non-feminist is Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism by Carolyn Graglia. She read all those tiresome books and articles by the feminist leaders, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir, and concluded that [...]
The Core of the Feminist Agenda
By Phyllis Schlafly It's time that somebody explained what a destructive force feminism has been in American society, and I believe that my new book being published next month does exactly that. The book explains the true nature of feminism, which I have been fighting ever since the 1970s, and the book brings new insights about current [...]
The Definition of Feminism
By Phyllis Schlafly My newest book is called The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know and Men Can't Say. It dives right into the middle of the current buzz about the meaning of feminism and who is a feminist. My co-author for this book, Suzanne Venker, belongs to a younger generation, and our book is designed to give the facts [...]
Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic
By Phyllis Schlafly The liberals have unjustly blamed Sarah Palin for many things, but there's one thing for which she is probably responsible: making feminism the hot topic that it has become today. Every couple of years Time and Newsweek ask "Is Feminism Dead?", but all of a sudden feminism is being discussed and debated in the [...]
VAWA Is an Excellent Target for Spending Cuts
By Phyllis Schlafly While the U.S. House is trying to figure out how to cut wasteful and/or extravagant federal spending, Members should be mindful of Reagan's advice to begin by cutting programs that are harmful. One that fits this definition is the billion-dollar-a-year Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), now up for re-authorization. This week [...]
Feminists Attack High School Sports
By Phyllis Schlafly Now that the radical feminists have succeeded in using the power of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel hundreds of men's college athletic teams, the feminists have announced that they will carry on their anti-male vendetta against boys' sports in high schools. A radical feminist organization called the National [...]
Making Jobs for Feminists in Other Countries
By Phyllis Schlafly The Obama Administration and the Nancy Pelosi gang in Congress are always pandering to the feminists and trying to give them more and more taxpayers' money. They have a new radical feminist bill they are trying to push through Congress called the International Violence Against Women Act -- I-VAWA for short. The feminists [...]
The Feminist Left Goes Global
By Phyllis Schlafly Just when we thought President Obama had reached the ultimate in seizing extravagant power by appointing a Health Care Czar to exercise life-and-death surveillance over Medicare and Medicaid, Congress is now trying to give him a Czar with global powers. This would be a Czar over women's issues, worldwide. Based in the [...]
I-VAWA: The Feminist-Left Slyly Advances its Abortion Agenda
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Pollsters are predicting sweeping conservative gains in the House of Representatives on November 2. The feminist-left is beginning to panic, knowing that time is running out on its pro-abortion, anti-family agenda. This Wednesday, September 29, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be holding a markup [...]
More Family Court Injustices to Fathers
By Phyllis Schlafly There seems to be no end to the series of disturbing injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights, such as due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to confront their accusers. All too [...]
Obama’s Title IX Ruling a ‘Step Backwards’ for Athletic Programs
Education Reporter, Eagle Forum With its reversal of a Bush-era Title IX regulation that allowed colleges to survey student interest in athletics and then spend accordingly, the Obama administration strongly signaled that gender quotas are the only certain measure of compliance. In April, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) [...]
The Gamesmenship of Restraining Orders
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the big problems with family courts is that judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal explained that women use these restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get child custody and to bar the father [...]
A Good Father’s Day Gift — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly A good Father's Day gift would be to reform the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), make it gender-neutral, and assure men that family courts will accord them constitutional rights equivalent to those enjoyed by murderers and robbers. VAWA will be coming up for its five-year reauthorization later this year, and that will [...]
Duke Keeps Pro-Life Group Out of Women’s Center During ‘Week for Life’
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org DURHAM, N.C., March 29, 2010—Duke University's Women's Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women's Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that "we have a problem" and an ideological "conflict" with the [...]
Will American Boys Grow Up to Be Men? — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly I've been explaining feminism, and refuting its fallacies, for many years. All the while, I've been hoping that some brave and articulate men would speak up against the stupidity of trying to move us all into a gender-neutral society. Finally, a man has done this. I am so happy to read a newspaper column by Dennis [...]
Feminists Consider Motherhood Oppressive — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly I was flipping the channels on my television a couple of weeks ago and I stopped, as I always do, on CSpan Books. There was some feminist, whose name is not important, giving a five-minute rant against President Richard Nixon because he vetoed the bill proposed by Walter Mondale to make federal daycare for preschool children a [...]
Obama Panders to Feminists — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The American public was outraged when it became known that Majority Leader Harry Reid got the Senate health care bill passed by putting into the bill gigantic benefits for Louisiana and Nebraska only, which would be a big political benefit to Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson. Those earmarks were worth hundreds of [...]
The Real Loser in the Massachusetts Election — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The Democrats are very upset about their surprise defeat in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, so they are throwing their own candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They blame her for running a poor campaign. Many reasons, of course, contributed to the remarkable victory of Senator Scott Brown. However, [...]
Obama Panders to Feminists — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Obama's "spread the wealth around" doesn't mean only higher taxes on taxpayers and more handouts to non-taxpayers; more especially, it means transfers of financial goodies to the President's political allies. The American people were rightfully outraged when it became known that Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson were [...]
The Real Loser In The Massachusetts Election — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Smarting from their surprise loss in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, the Democrats are throwing their candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They blame her for running a poor campaign that made losers out of Barack Obama, the Democrats, their bad health care bill, and even Ted Kennedy in his [...]
Feminist Vendetta Against Men's Sports
by Phyllis Schlafly I was shocked to read a U.S. Army report that 75% of America's 17- to 24-year-olds are not eligible for military service for various reasons. According to this report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve," nearly a third of all potential recruits can't join the military because they're too fat, out of shape, can't do [...]
Feminist Attack on Boys — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The feminist lobby has carried on a ten-year campaign to sell the false propaganda that girls are cheated all through the education system, Kindergarten through college. This campaign started in 1992 when the ultra-feminist American Association of University Women issued a report called "How Schools Shortchange Girls." It [...]
Where Are the Men? — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Colleges used to have a male-female ratio of about 60-40, and suddenly, we've discovered it's close to 40-60. Men don't like this change; women don't like it; and colleges don't like it. One cause for this dramatic shift is that colleges perceive applications by women to be better than those submitted by men. But, why is it [...]
Feminists Don’t Believe in Choice — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly One of the major goals of the feminist movement has been to get all wives and mothers out of the home and into the workforce, and women are now half of the workforce in America. Women's percentage in the labor force keeps rising because of who is going to college. Thirty years ago, the ratio of males to females on college [...]
Government’s Role in Marriage — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has been fundamental to America ever since the founding of our nation. When the famous French commentator Alexis de Toqueville traveled the United States in the early-19th century, he recognized the fact that respect for marriage is very American. He wrote: [...]
Where are the Men? — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced in November that it will investigate whether colleges illegally discriminate against women by admitting less qualified men. This is only the latest in a decades-long campaign by the feminist lobby to sell the false propaganda that girls are cheated all through the education system, [...]
Feminists Still Aren’t Happy — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly It's really pretty funny to read all the psychoanalyzing of the feminists by themselves. They just don't understand why all surveys show that women are not as happy as they were in 1970 before the feminist movement got started. But every now and then, a feminist writer makes a sensible comment. (more...)
