Earlier this month, we posted a report on remarks that Phyllis Schlafly delivered to a class at The Citadel entitled the “Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America” during which she warned the cadets not to date feminists.
The Citadel has finally posted the video of Schlafly’s appearance, which turned out to be an excruciatingly dull hour and forty five minutes of Schlafly railing against feminism and gay marriage and abortion to a group of cadets who, based on the question and answer session toward the end, clearly did not share many of her views.
The bulk of Schlafly’s remarks was dedicated to recounting the rise of the conservative movement and her efforts to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, which she said was unnecessary because “women have had every constitutional right men have [had] since the day it was written” … which seems like a rather odd statement considering that the Constitution had to be specifically amended to give women the right to vote.
We managed to grab a few “highlights” from Schlafly’s remarks, such as we she said that feminism “is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad and destructive” because “American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on this earth.”
She then went on to explain that the true motive of feminists is to destroy the stay-at-home mother as a model because it gives men an advantage over women in the workplace. As Schlafly explained it, men have wives at home cooking them dinner and raising their children and the feminist “is insanely jealous of that [and since] she can’t have a wife of her own, she wants to abolish the wife of the man.”
Finally, she warned the cadets not to date women who are feminists, no matter how pretty they are and offered a surefire way to know whether a woman is a feminist or not – simply ask her how she feels about Phyllis Schlafly:
