During these years of change, the second wave of feminism swept across the United States, with activists and women's "
libbers" advocating for women's rights.
Do they not know that the word "heroine" ditched by women's
libbers, is the proper word for a brave woman?
Schlafly's coalition sent 200 conservatives to Houston who stood across town from the conference site with signs that reflected their rage, such as one that read, "Women's
Libbers, E.R.A., Lesbians REPENT, Read the Bible while your [sic] able." Other banners encouraged "women to subordinate themselves to the will of God, their pastor and their husbands." At the conference, the Pro-Life, Pro-Family Rally also disrupted several conference proceedings.
In the late '60s, second-wave feminists created a movement only to be laughed off by males as "hairy-legged feminists," "bra burners" and "Women's
Libbers." The legendary 1973 tennis match between World No.
Apart from the highly irritating 'I'm not a feminist but...' trope, far more blood-boiling are anti-feminists defining us as 'out of date old women's
libbers', 'man haters', and a whole lot of other descriptions that speak to the prejudice and paranoia of the author.
In a nutshell, the Golden Age myth goes like this: Yes, it used to be great here in the USA, but then liberals, secularists, women's
libbers, gay rights activists, and others came along and tore down our glorious "Christian nation" and look where we are now!
NOW President Karen DeCrow debated Phyllis on several occasions where she would sarcastically declare, "If I had a daughter, I would like her to be a housewife just like Phyllis Schlafly." But Phyllis frequently responded to such personal attacks with: "I want to thank my husband, Fred, for letting me come here." Explaining her statement later, she said, "I like to say that because I know it irritates women's
libbers more than anything else." In the later years of the 1970s, Phyllis even found time to enter law school at Washington University.
Maybe a few remarks about "bloody feminists", "them wimmin's
libbers", then nothing.
In New York, women's
libbers began to hit the streets, demanding equal opportunities in professional and household tasks with their befuddled husbands.
As she put it in 2007: "[What] made me anomalous among women's
libbers was that, at 52, I was as old as their mothers - and their mothers were regarded as traitors, collaborators with the enemy, having played along with the nuclear-family rigmarole by acquiring a hubby, a few kiddy-winkies, and all that crap.
It makes no sense except, of course, to the drum-beating and bra-less
libbers of the equal rights brigade.
The other Women's
Libbers talk feelingly, without compunction, about their husbands' or ex-husbands' or lovers' negligence, impotence, sexual demands, dirty habits, and infidelities.
libber - a supporter of feminism