It's not just the Catholics that fear women.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Not to let the Catholic church off the hook for their misogyny but:

"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line." (Jerry Falwell)

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." (Rush Limbaugh, "The Way Things Ought to Be" (1994 edition)

"Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity." (Phyllis Schlafly, New York Times, 10/17/92)

"You can't get into negotiations with the feminists because you will lose. They will slit your throat. They have no sense of fair play or compromise." (Phyllis Schlafly, National Affairs Briefing, 8/92)

“Nature doth paint them further to be weak, frail, impatient, feeble and foolish; and experience hath declared them to be unconstant, variable, cruel, and lacking the spirit of counsel.” (John Knox, Scottish Presbyterian leader. From title of pamphlet The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558.

"[The] feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." (Fundraising letter from Pat Robertson that was an in-kind contribution to the Iowa Committee to Stop ERA, as reported in The Washington Post, August 23, 1993)

"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." (Federal News Service, Sept. 11, 1992, quoting a Robertson newsletter.)

"Why are so many marriages falling apart? Why is the divorce rate so high? ...Why is there such a tragedy in marriage?...Now the basic answer to the basic [problem of marriages today is a question of leadership. The wife actually makes the husband the head of the household and she looks to him and she says 'now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you." (Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, May 22, 1986.)

&quot Robertson) chastised women legislators who support no-fault divorce laws that he says encourage men to split. 'Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving,' Robertson said, paraphrasing a conservative commentator." (The State-Record, Columbia, SC,June 28, 1992)

"The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil...." (Martin Luther)

"The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism..." (Pat Robertson)

"All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman." (Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 7:26)

"Women...have but small and narrow chests, and broad hips, to the end that they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children." (Martin Luther)

"To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire, above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice." (John Knox, Scottish Presbyterian leader. First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women-pamphlet published 1558, the first year of Elizabeth I’s reign.

[Remember Me]

1. Wow, there's some heavy-duty misogyny in them thar quotes!

You included my favorite:

" feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." (Fundraising letter from Pat Robertson that was an in-kind contribution to the Iowa Committee to Stop ERA, as reported in The Washington Post, August 23, 1993)

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[saras]

5. Replace "kill" with "dump on the father" and he's describing my old college friends ;)

The kids I'm going to college with these days are already onto the witchcraft, anti-capitalism and lesbianism, leaving the husband and kid stuff for later in life.

I mean, compared with that, who wants equal rights with fat old conservative white men? Lots of people want BETTER.

[spedtr90]

2. feminazi

[RainDog]

3. k&r n/t

[Honeycombe8]

4. God, forgive them...for they know not what they say. (I'm paraphrasing, of course)

Sheesh. What's said is that these things can be said these days, even tho it's the 21st century, in the media, and be taken seriously instead of hauled off. Imagine saying these things about, say, Af. Americans, or Asians, or hispanics?

The Australian actor...what was his name...Crocodile Dundee guy. Anyway, he was on Letterman, I think it was, and actually said he liked Australia better than America because women in Australia "knew their place." Seriously. He wasn't joking. Imagine if he'd said that about black people. The audience would've booed him off the stage. But the audience sat in silence. Probably stunned. But they didn't make a sound, as I recall.

We have to start speaking up loudly when we run across this hate speech. It's very harmful. Imagine the impact on a young girl's aspirations and dreams, to hear this kind of talk.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Jerry Falwell referred to the students at Sweet Briar College

"the Harlots on the Hill".

http://www.sbc.edu

(Sweet Briar College is one of the last independent women's liberal arts colleges, located 15 some miles north of Liberty University, a/k/a Liberty Baptist College in the Seventies.)

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Wow..that was an instant time capsule to 1963!

I had almost forgotten how grim the pre-1970 decades were.
And will be again, if Regressives get their way.

[MisterP]

9. especially since churches do tend to reflect the structure of their culture--

so Argentina has a conservative Church, Nicaragua had a split between radicals and bourgeoisie, and Brazil had Red Cardinals

creationism and apocalypticism are "US things" more than "non-Establishment Protestant things" even though they intersect strongly (note the fundies in Britain and Australia)