Phyllis Schlafly: Great Pro-Rape American
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 5:20PM A reader has written in to point out that more than a year ago another Republican was blazing trails for rape-lovers like us. That Republican is Phyllis Schlafly. Originally Schlafly said this at an event at Bates College:
By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape.
Then, a year later, she granted an interview to a Washington University in St. Louis student newspaper, it went like this:
Could you clarify some of the statements that you made in Maine last year about marital rape?
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.
Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?
Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.
So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-
Yes, I certainly do.
At first glance you might think this is an anti-rape stance, since she's denying that a rape has occurred. However, we all know that's silly – marital rape is one of the best kinds of rape. What's she's doing here is saying that marital rape is morally acceptable, while extramarital rape is not. That makes perfect sense, since extramarital rape is adultery and is proscribed by the Ten Commandments.
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Reader Comments (6)
I think Phyllis is more a RINO, Rapist-In-Name-Only. She's wildly against immigration, and being against immigration means less people, and less people means less people to rape.
I look forward to the day when we can eject the timid from our party, although I understand, for now, it help makes Republicans for Rape, like me, seem more like a big-tent party. I just don't know what Miss Schafly has against some people slipping in under the edge of the tent and getting raped!
That would be "marital rape," not "martial rape."
The tongue in cheek style almost works but leaves a eerie twist.
Marriage is consent to sex sounds like Pastor Jack Hyles of the world's largest church First Baptist Church of Hammond Indiana. May he pay for all of his words in hell.
Does Phyllis Schlafly WANT "these girls" to even get sex ed? And what sex ed course teaches that you have to submit to sex? The way she equates marriage to sex is a little weird anyway- there's a lot more to marriage than sex (although in her worldview it's how you gain the privilege to be sexual), and I don't think I need to tell anyone here that entering into marriage isn't giving up your right not be raped by your husband. Sigh. Guess I'm preaching to the wrong blog... I'll go talk to some anti-rape folks. ;)
Would the word for KBR's style be Martial Rape?
@Kati,
Sweet, Kati. Assuming you're not married; I think if you were you would not be so sure about the status of these pontifical truths.
Phyllis Schlafly is so completely right, and simultaneously so catastrophically wrong, as to be as a poor translation between two different languages. She makes a mishmash of legal, biblical and rational considerations. A hundred years ago she would have been giving a husband sound legal advice (not good advice, even a hundred years ago, nobody in a business or professional position could survive such an accusation), but he ("this spawn of Satan") would get off. Not so today. Today her position is nonsense.
That's not to say that a young woman (at least a woman with one eye and half sense) does not recognize that while her husband may be very sensitive and consciously reticent to demonstrate his gentility and his love for you, he is, nevertheless, if he loves you, a boiling caldron of desire for you. Sorry if that upsets your applecart. Not my fault, guys are like that. And my limited experience is that you know exactly what I'm talking about. When you pull on your stockings with him sitting there with eyes as big as half-dollars, don't kid me about your motives.
Conversely, no young man (in his right mind) is looking for bridges to burn. He knows, from his Mom, that being a woman is hard work. He will be, within the limits of his capabilities, as sweet as he can be. And that means that you generally need not fear marital rape. This is not to be construed as a blanket get-out-of-jail card. Even I, the Jesus of southeast Texas... Never mind.
Have a lovely day.