Phyllis Schlafly is Dead

[sighyoung]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/obitu ... .html?_r=0

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Scalia, Schlafly, Trump getting the nod.

Not a real good year for mainstream conservatives this 2016.

[heyzeus]

Bye Felicia.

[The Third Man]

So, Prince, Bowie, Rickman and Wilder, but on the other hand, Scalia and Schlafly? That might still might be a net positive.

[Jocephus]

hulu has a show about phyllis (cate blanchett) that i guess started today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._America_(miniseries)

"Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era—both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus—the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the ’70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape."[1]

[Leroy]

is it bad that I don't have the foggiest idea who this is?

[GeddyWrox]

Every time I see this thread title, I hear it like this:

[GeddyWrox]

is it bad that I don't have the foggiest idea who this is?

Basically she was the anti-feminist. She was adored by the Rush Limbaugh wing of the Republican party.

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (/ˈʃlæfli/; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was a movement conservative and author. She held staunchly conservative social and political views, opposed feminism and abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her book, A Choice Not an Echo (1964), a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, sold more than three million copies. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet Union.[2] In 1972, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a conservative political interest group, and remained its chair and CEO until her death in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly

[heyzeus]

She's still dead, right?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

She's still dead, right?

Yes. Her and Francisco Franco.