Sunday, January 29, 2006

Note to Schlafly: Don't Do Me Any Favors, OK? A new biography of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly is reviewed in today's NYTimes. But reviewer Judith Warner says the book doesn't answer that basic, exasperating question of why an accomplished, financially independent, politically engaged and arguably, professional essayist, author and politician, would spend all her energies on preserving a woman's "right" to economic and social dependence on men. Seeing photos of Schlafly with the Stop ERA button always makes me furious. Could you see a black person wearing an "Up with Jim Crow" button? How/why did she get co-opted? Maybe it was the mansion and the servants? Anyway, the biography by Donald T. Critchlow apparently doesn't deal with this question.                   Bettmann/CorbisNYTimes Meanwhile, Schlafly at 80-plus, is still trucking along. You can visit her misguided Eagle Forum site and see for yourself. -RH 12:26:28 PM    comment []

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