Phyllis Schlafly: Women Can Avoid Sexual Assault By Focusing on Marriage, Not Careers

[big_dog]

In her radio address yesterday, Phyllis Schlafly took on the issue of domestic violence and sexual assault, which she said could be eliminated if women would just get married instead of focusing so much on their careers.We all know that married men can still be violent to their families, but they are far less likely to be violent against women than are live-in boyfriends.

Noting that “marriage settles men down,” Schlafly asked, “So what’s the answer for women who worry about male violence? It’s not to fear all men. It’s to reject the lifestyle of frequent 'hookups,' which is so much promoted on college campuses today, while the women pursue a career and avoid marriage.”

Why is this? It’s true that women who have found men who are already better partners are more likely to marry them, but it’s also true that marriage settles men down. Being married makes a man care more about his family’s expectations and future because he sees his family as enduring. It also makes him more faithful and committed to his partner. Marriage makes men directly protective of their wives, and living in a home with their daughters gives them the opportunity to be directly protective of them as well. Marriage also creates indirect protection for wives and daughters, because married women and their children tend to live in safer neighborhoods.



http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-women-can-avoid-sexual-assault-focusing-marriage-not-career

[louis-t]

1. Unhhhh, this woman just won't go away.

She's down to one brain cell and it's not working very well.

[surrealAmerican]

17. She makes every bit as much sense as she ever did...

... which is to say, none whatsoever.

[Rex]

2. Ow...my head hurts now...how did she do that?

Marriage settles men down? She even glance at the current divorce rates in America? Which of course NEVER lead to domestic violence or problems.

[seabeyond]

3. wow, you are on a roll article after article putting women in their place.

you like this type of op, right? or more, why do you consistently do an op where women are being put into their place, or denigraded? i am curious your intent. i guess that is it.

[RKP5637]

9. Wow, are you back! Hadn't seen you in awhile, missed you!!!

[seabeyond]

11. ahhhhh. lol.

thank you. that is nice. i got another vacation. they are always good, thanks.

[leftstreet]

4. Idiot. Most attackers already know the victims

The marriage 'protects' women from 'hookups?'

Does she have onset dementia or something?

[logosoco]

5. This woman was way backward way back in the 80s,

and I see she has made no progress in 30 years.

[NYC_SKP]

6. I can't even say here what I think of this person, this thing, organism, mistake of nature.

Usually I have compassion for even the worst of people, thinking that maybe the were abused as children.

I can't find any for this thing, who I won't even refer to as a woman or as a person, as the requisite elements aren't expressed.

[BlueJazz]

7. Sweet Jesus...is that thing still alive.? She has a smarter sister called Sara Palin.

[hifiguy]

10. Nope. Schlafly can construct a grammatically viable sentence in English.

Princess Dumbass has yet to master that skill.

[BlueJazz]

15. Good Point.

[hifiguy]

8. She's still alive?

Oh, and,

[love_katz]

12. Ye gods. Teh stoopid just burns.

So, let's see...women should stay locked up in their homes all day, waiting for their daddy-o big protector to come home, who will be admitted by some kind of fancy technology which excludes all those violent single men?
And, of course, if we manage to snag us a well-off male we will all get to live "in the better neighborhoods."

This is SO full of bull$hit, that I hardly know where to start.

I seem to remember one annoying little factoid that brings her whole POS statement thundering down to ruin: women who are assaulted/or killed are usually done in by their husband or long-time boyfriend. Suck on it, Phyllis.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. This old Fuddie Duddie just carries water

for her Church's leadership. She has not produced anything of positive substance to the National debate in hole career,what every that has been. What a air head.

[TBF]

14. Of course her career always came first -

she flies around the country telling other women what to do.

[onecaliberal]

16. Where is her family?

Because of the policy of her party, women have to work to keep their family from becoming homeless.