How can this woman sleep at night? Read on at your own peril, and not on a full stumach. 'sister rat' maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------- Forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W Swank) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Multiple recipients of list) Date: 96-07-23 13:27:56 EDT Listers, Check this out. Also, Schlafly can be reached at the Eagle Forum's email address is at the bottom of this posting. Eric Swank Ohio State Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 22 19:52:40 1996 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:07:32 -0400 > Reply-To: "Women's Studies List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: "Women's Studies List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Jenny Thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: schlafly letter > To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Open Letter to VMI Alumni > > > > June 11, 1996 by Phyllis Schlafly > > This is an open letter to Virginia Military Institute Alumni. > > Dear Alumni: > > Your VMI training not only taught you to be tough, courageous > and honorable, but also to survive humiliation and harassment. You > are now facing your greatest challenge. > > You've lost a major battle. Are you going to be survivors, or > are you going to let the enemy wipe you and your kind from the face > of the earth, pour salt in the soil that produced you, and drop you > down the Memory Hole? > > The most important factor in any confrontation is the ancient > maxim "Know your enemy." I'm not sure you ever understood the > nature of your enemy. > > The massive government lawsuit against VMI wasn't about "ending > sex discrimination" or "allowing women to have access to the same > educational benefits that men have at VMI." It was a no-holds-barred > fight to feminize VMI waged by the radical feminists and their > cohorts in the Federal Government. > > The radical feminists just can't stand it that any institution > in America is permitted to motivate and train real men to manifest > the uniquely masculine attributes. Feminists want to gender- > neutralize all men so they can intimidate and control them. The > feminists' longtime, self-proclaimed goal is an androgynous society. > Repudiating constitutional intent, history, tradition and human > nature, they seek to forbid us, in public or private life, to > recognize the differences between men and women. > > Feminist strategy is straightforward: whine that women are > victims of centuries of "oppression" and "stereotyping," lay a > guilt trip on men, and use all the stereotypical cultural techniques > that women have always used to wheedle what they want out of men. > Then, use feminists on the public payroll in all three branches of > government to change the laws in order to force us to conform. > > Since feminists successfully got women admitted into the > military academies, and got the Clinton Administration to assign > women to military combat positions, VMI and the Citadel remained as > the most visible fortresses of the concept that men and women are > fundamentally different. The feminists hate you just because you > exist. > > The notion that a military institution that has functioned with > success, public acceptance, and significant prestige for 157 years, > suddenly, one day in June 1996, can be rationally said to violate the > Constitution is patently ridiculous. Black robes and Ruth Bader > Ginsburg's devious rhetoric about "scrutiny" can't make such judicial > arrogance any less ridiculous. > > The idea of setting up a VMI course for women at Mary Baldwin > College to save VMI from an adverse decision was a futile gesture, > and Ginsburg held this expensive effort up to ridicule as "invented > post hoc in response to litigation." You need to understand that > the lawsuit against VMI had nothing to do with securing opportunities > or benefits for women; it only had to do with destroying the > masculine integrity of VMI. > > Ginsburg's opinion asserted that "women's successful entry into > the federal military academies" proves that women can successfully > matriculate at VMI. That assumption is false because VMI's regimen > is very different from the military academies'. The VMI trial record > proved that women's so-called "successful" experience in the federal > military academies is based on quotas, dual standards, and gender > norming. Female cadets compete against other female cadets for > designated female slots, rather than competing against the men. > > The VMI decision was wholly predictable when Clinton appointed > Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Court. Her activist determination to > write her radical feminist goals into the Constitution was all > laid out in her published writings, but no Senator questioned her > about them. Every Senator who voted for her confirmation shares in > the shame of this decision. > > VMI Alumni, your response to this Supreme Court defeat should > be to reject the state subsidy and embark on a national fundraising > drive to raise the money to keep VMI functioning exactly as it always > has. If the still-existing single-sex colleges, such as Wellesley and > Smith, can survive on private fundraising plus government student > loans, and if Hillsdale College can survive without any government > funds at all, there's no reason why VMI and the Citadel can't do > this, too. > > Don't make the mistake of changing VMI's unique lifestyle to > try to accommodate Sister Rats. The women who seek a military career > based on dual standards and gender norming can go to West Point, > Annapolis, or the Air Force Academy. > > VMI Alumni, if you allow Ginsburg et all to do to VMI what Pat > Schroeder et all have done to the United States Navy, you are not > the exemplars of manhood we thought you were. And that goes for > Citadel alumni, too. > > > EAGLE FORUM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PO Box 618 > Alton, IL 62002 > Phone: 618-462-5415 > ---------------------------------------------- > Tell a friend about us! > > http://www.eagleforum.org > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE FOR JOURNALISTS AND RESEARCHERS: Please ask for written permission from all direct participants before quoting any material posted on FEMECON-L.
