If you're attending The Citadel, you were in for a real treat this week: A lecture by one of America's foremost Ladies Against Woman, the person that was Ann Coulter before Ann Coulter was ever born, the ultraconservative leading light that made the mom from Leave it to Beaver look like an absolute whore, Phyllis Schlafly:
Schlafly, who led a grass-roots fight to prevent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, spoke Wednesday at The Citadel as part of the military college’s new course, Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America.
Thus semi-conclusively answering the single most asked question about Phyllis Schafly, "Is Phyllis Schlafly still alive?" It also raises another equally valid question, which is why, precisely, the anti-indoctrinating-the-younguns crowd thinks "Conservative Intellectual Tradition" needs teaching at a military school, but I don't expect that one takes much imagination.
And feminists are working through the media and other channels because the American public no longer seems to strongly support their agenda, Schlafly said. “Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,” she said.
Unlike Phyllis Schlafly, godmother of the apocalypse, who is a great deal of fun at parties and not at all an insufferable crank who has subsisted for the last fifty years on a diet of broken glass and seething public hatred for nine-tenths of America.
Schlafly talked to a group of Citadel students about the culture of conservatism and the history of the religious right. She told the all-male group that “feminist is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad.”
And she warned them about having personal relationships with feminists. “Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,” she said. “Some of them are pretty. They don’t all look like Bella Abzug.”
I'm not sure where warning the cadets that wily feminist-types will trick them by being all
pretty and stuff fits into "Conservative Intellectual Tradition," unless the point of the course is to teach our future military leaders that "conservative intellectual tradition" consists of batshit paranoia coupled with a longing to return to the Salem witch trials ("She's advocating for better working conditions for the masses! Burn her!"), but I think the answer is that Phyllis Schlafly is just really, really that concerned with keeping the menfolk away from sinister feminists. Thus: a college course on how not to date them, even if they're pretty. No word yet on how grades will be determined.
Schlafly said she thinks pro-family, pro-life GOP candidates have a chance of winning if they concentrate on bringing good jobs to this county and putting a stop to Obama, who she thinks is doing whatever he wants to do. “He’s ruling like a petty dictator,” she said.
Now I'm not sure what happens to a cadet who might express such an opinion (cough military school cough), so once again that's going to lead to some awkward phrasings, come pop quiz time. But let's all give a warm hand to ... let's see, to suspiciously-possibly-liberal-because-all-professors-are-liberal wealthy pseudoprofessor Mallory Factor (no relation to Factor, The O'Reilly) for making sure his young recruits get good dating tips from a crazy person as part of their regular classwork. Go America!