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Anti-Suffragist H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E

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Meet Phyllis Schafly II:

I think the 19th Amendment, while it’s not an evil in and of itself, is a symptom of something I don’t approve of. The 19th Amendment is around because men weren’t doing their jobs, and I think that’s sad. I believe the man should be the head of the family. The woman should be the heart of the family.

— Kansas State Senator Kay O’Connor, 2001

Today she announced that she is running for Secretary of State.

But what about the children?!

The good general weighs in on her campaign as well with a letter addressed to Ms. O’Connor:

I have to wonder just how committed you really are to ending women’s suffrage. After all, if you’re unfit to vote, how can you possibly be fit to serve in public office. Have you considered serving the people of Kansas in some other way? Perhaps your time would be better spent if you stood at the polls on election days and screamed the word “harlot” at every woman standing in line. Heck, I bet you’d end suffrage for more women that way. It’s what the French call thinking globally but acting locally.

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  6. Blame it on the ceaseless Kansas wind. It is a well known fact you can be driven mad by the wind. A wind that is never still. A wind that whispers in your ears. A wind that tell you to do things. Sometimes evil things. Sometimes embarrassing things. Even stupid things.

    How could you expect a mere woman to resist the call of that maddening force of nature?

  7. The really crazy reactionaries are slippery. Note she doesn’t say she wants to repeal suffrage, she doesn’t say that it’s evil – explicitly, she just dances around all the bs implicitly so she can rile feathers and still have an airtight denial. Makes her a woman even the most sexist redneck can vote for, so she gets ahead at the expense of every other woman, but without taking responsibility for it.

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  9. I am always astounded that women like O’Connor, Coulter, Schafley and their ilk can get up and spout all this bs, but fail to realize that without suffrage and feminism, they’d still be at home in their kitchens….

  10. They probably wouldn’t be, though. In the 19th century, there were lots of women who built public careers talking about how women belonged in the home. It’s a time-honored tradition.

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