STFU, Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly's latest political ambition is to badmouth a pretty easy target: single moms. Any woman who is against feminism is already highly suspect in my book—especially one who is an attorney and an author, a fact that wouldn’t be possible without feminism; but as a mother with six kids, you’d think Schlafly could have some human decency when it comes to mothers working alone to support their children.
Not a chance.
Schlafly is raising hell about women voting for Obama because they’re single and wanting government assistance. “70% of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have Big Brother government as your provider.”
Wow. Really, Phyllis? Women intentionally kick out their menfolk so they can be provided for by the big bad government? This is offensive on so many levels. Not only is Schlafly making light of the epidemic of single parents—which includes men—forced to work and care for children out of various circumstances, she’s also blaming women for “kicking out” their “husbands.” I suppose Schlafly has never heard of the thousands of women—yes, and men—raising families because their significant other (not necessarily spouse) left of their own accord, leaving them alone to do the job. I guess about a dozen of my friends just don’t exist.
And I guess she didn’t get the memo about how hard these women and men work to support their children and themselves, working as both parents as well as provider. It’s not the 1950s anymore, Phyllis; we can do both. And we do. You yourself should know that; you’ve done it, too.
Though I’m not a single parent, I have to work in order to make ends meet along with my husband; I can only imagine how tough it is for my single parent friends—most of them mothers, though one is a father—and relatives to get by.
Perhaps if you reconsidered your views disputing the validity of rape and vehement opposition against Roe vs. Wade, you wouldn’t have to worry about so many single parents either, would you, Phyllis? Did you ever consider that women given the ability to make their own decisions might not get pregnant—and therefore would not waste your precious tax dollars? You can’t have it both ways. Either support pregnant women and families or don’t.
These “welfare mothers” you are so opposed against, by the way, have nothing on those greedy welfare suckers that you probably do support, however; they go by the name of big business. And they drink up much more money in corporate welfare than struggling parents. Perhaps you should take your complaint to Wall Street instead of Main Street.
By the way, as the source points out, less than 20% of the you refer to are mothers of young children. So who are you really attacking? Stop using single parents for your agenda and your scapegoat, Phyllis. It’s obnoxious and pathetic.
