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Whether you love her or hate her, Phyllis Schlafly has been successful at making a career out of telling working women how depleted they are and how fortunate stay-at-home Moms are that she has rescued them. She is offensive on both counts. I am a 60 year-old working grandmother (raised 4 kids while working and attending graduate school) and am stunned that Washington University is awarding her an honorary degree.

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Johnpertzborn read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 6:29 AM

I enjoy her nephew's beer.

Flaglady read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 8:15 AM

You solved the mystery where else I heard that name.

Legolas read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 8:28 AM

But it's ok for Wash U to honor left wing communist...ok...your not the only one who paid for their own Grad School...

opinionatedlady read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 10:09 AM

Why is it automatic that someone who has had sucesses whether you believe in what they stand for can't be honored? Anything that is not liberal is offensive???? Most of those students talking sounded very closed minded to me. It is a different point of view than theirs, it doesn't make it wrong, most of them have probably never even listened to her or read anything about her except what some liberal told them.

ben_nicole
May 14, 2008 | 10:20 AM

I think she is a great woman. I don't see why people think they have the right to take such a great honor away from her. I am I stay at home mom and I am thankful I have the chance to be there for my children!! I guess there is always going to be someone who will try to bring you down when your up, and I feel sorry for them.

mrsgnome
May 14, 2008 | 11:17 AM

I, too, am a 60 yr old graduate of Wash U and I am extremely upset that Phyllis Schlafly would be honored for her attempts to set us back decades. I am even more upset with the undergraduate women who are supporting her. They were not around in the 70's and 80's when women had to fight to get jobs and fight even harder to get paid equal wages to their male conterparts. I am a CPA and I lived through it. The battle isn't over, but we have come a long way baby. You can thank all the working women when you go out and get a job after graduation, not Phyllis Schlafly.

jsage read my blog
May 14, 2008 | 12:08 PM

I guess honoring diverse ideas only goes one way.

MissGerri000
May 14, 2008 | 12:36 PM

Well, I think Phyllis Shhlafly should take a long and needed rest. It was okay for her to have a wonderful education, a family and a career. Why would she deprive other women of trying to have the same ? Girlfriend needs to get a grip.

TheShan2007 read my blog
May 14, 2008 | 12:54 PM

Go Phyllis! And thank you UMSL for standing up for what is right.

Wow, raising 4 kids AND working full time and going to grad school. Your poor kids must not have even recognized you when, and IF, you showed up!

How sad.

SikUvTheRite read my blog
May 14, 2008 | 1:09 PM

Actually, John, I wasn't sure of the connection between Mrs. Far-Right Schlafly and the beer.

So it's her nephew's company?

None of that business startup money came from Auntie Phyllis, now, did it?

Well, according to most of the right-wingers, it was "hard work", right? Man, I'm SURE of it - it had NOTHING to do with Auntie Phyllis' money, I'm positive! Ha, ha! LOL

I have some in-laws who won't go there or drink Schlafly beer because of the connection to her. I was never sure, so I'm always happy to imbibe if I happen to have a chance! I always point out that ALL breweries are owned by rich capitalists who had everything handed to them, therefore they are ALL going to be extremely right-wing, so why pick on Schlafly?

I worked at Wash U, so it doesn't surprise me they are doing this. But to be fair, they also bestow this honor of plenty of "communists", too, so they do try to be fair, I guess. And make no mistake about Wash U - their world revolves around those with money.

sarcasticdragon
May 14, 2008 | 1:43 PM

I saw the protesters on the news and all I could think was..

"dont you have a class you need to be at, is this what your parents are paying for?"

From what I can gather all this gal has done it want woman to stay home and raise a family instead of advancing in a career.

A little anti womans lib but hardly enought to cause a protest. According to my mother raising a family is a career.

As far as the protesters are concerned..
Go back to class, get over yourselves, get a life.

dannbetty read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 3:03 PM

Let's hear it for the women who went out to get a career and flooded the market with labor resources so men could make less money too. That way it takes 2 incomes to get by and the majority of the people are too tired to argue about it when they get home. Yes a woman can do anything a man can do. But a mother needs to be a mother to her children, at home, teaching them that supporting the father in the family is as important, morally, as his support for them is financially.

ben_nicole
May 14, 2008 | 8:26 PM

That's what I was thinking... GOOD JOB!!

tomorrow
May 14, 2008 | 8:52 PM

To Shan2007
Women of my generation had husbands who didn't come back alive from Viet Nam. I'm a widow and so were many other widowed mothers.

snoopydad24 read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 10:07 PM

Yes I posted this on the other blog but I feel it works here as well.

Lets see if she was against equal rights and women being in places of employment instead of being barefoot and pregnant then why did she go to college in the first place? Next for being a “stay at home mom” then how does she explain the publishing companies she has started. What about the articles and books in support of Barry Goldwater and national defense? Then there is the failed campaign for a seat in Congress in 1952. ??

To me it appears that Schlafly was and is a successful business woman who campaigned against other women having the same success she has had. Her list of accomplishments is quite impressive, more than any stay at home mom I know. This person reminds me a college English teacher I had who wanted to have her cake and eat it too. I asked this teacher then why she wasn’t at home producing babies instead of at a university teaching young men and women? Needless to say she didn’t provide much support to her argument and of course I failed the class for confronting her. At least I supported my statements. ?
When I first heard this story the only thing that kept entering my mind is:
?A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
?Even if is a woman’s mind (just joking ladies). Women can do much more than produce babies and cook for the “master” of the house.

snoopydad24 read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 10:07 PM

Danbetty as I have said in another blog concerning salaries and products is that the price of products have nearly quadrupled while salaries have pretty much stayed the same over the last forty years. So if you want a typical suburban home that isn’t real extravagant your are looking between 150k – 175k in the same neighborhood. The same house you could buy on one salary like my Dad did now takes two salaries. I guess the men could work two jobs like a friend of mine did but with most families I know both parents work to pay the mortgage and other household expenses. Treating the man as the king of his castle may be a accepted in some mid-eastern countries where women are considered servants but I much rather teach my girls that they can be doctors, lawyers (like Schlafly), accountants, or even members of the military if they choose. But I guess my interpretation of Eve coming from Adam’s rib to be his equal is misguided despite many people who wrote those words did not want women to have any rights so they concocted the apple story.

Tomorrow sorry to hear you lost your husband in Viet Nam but if you listen to Schlafly and one or two other extremists you were to remarry, cook and have babies with a new man in order to be a complete woman. But I also know that you and women like you had the man of your dreams that supported and provided for you and no other man would be able to do that.

STLRaceChicks read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 7:07 AM

It never ceases to amaze me how the kids in these colleges and universities who are bombarded with the "diversity, acceptance and tolerance" mantra never seem to understand that it is supposed to apply to everyone's views and not just their own. Of course, that is because their liberal professors, for all their years of education, don't comprehend the concept either, so how can we expect anything else?

As a mid-forties, work-at-home mother of two, I think Ms. Schlafly deserves far more than just an honorary degree from a school whose staff and students obviously do not appreciate her point of view and that of the conservative population in general. The letter written by the chancellor in response to the uproar is a slap in the face and a cowardly way of trying to take the heat off of himself while appeasing a handful of brainwashed students who need to get back to class and learn something worthwhile.

Legolas read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 10:06 AM

stlracechicks; Your first paragraph says it all..these young know nothing punks think they are "Pioneers of Free Speech" ...as long as you agree with their views.....I laugh at their HYPOCRISY...

SikUvTheRite read my blog
May 15, 2008 | 4:13 PM

Why, Legolas, speaking of hypocracy...

Ah, Phyllis Schlafly - just another right-wing conservative hypocrite.

Say one thing to appease the easily misguided minions on the right, do another to appease her own greed. I think it sold a lot of books while she was being a stay-at-home mom!

Why am I so disgusted with the far right? Just listening this morning on Fox to her vulgar and insulting talk about anybody and everybody that disagrees with her phony BOOGEDY is enough.

So she's the "fifth generation" to attend Washington University?? But, she says she "worked through college". Yeah, right. What work did she do, periodic checking on her family inheritance? This woman is a classic poster child of the phony BOOGEDY that comes out of the mouths of the privileged, working so hard to convince us they earned their place in society!

And those protesters are SO jealous of her success! As if to assume none of them are successful. Phyllis, maybe some of those students actually DID actual WORK to get to that college (unlikely, but possible!).

The only thing's she's been successful about is providing other privileged snots some convenient lies to use to try to convince the rest of us they actually earned their way.

Besides, if her chosen mission is to say a woman's place is in the home, then she is a complete failure.

But I would never be for silencing her. No, silencing dissenting opinions is a hallmark of HER kind, the conservative far-right. I say let her speak her mind, so we all know just what a pathetic hypocritical loser she really is.

Legolas read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 6:14 PM

sik..as always you talk too much...fox-2 should put a leash on you ..like the one on your mut...use less words....you rant like the angry insignificant slug you are....

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