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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:36 PM Dec 2013

anti-feminist crusader Suzanne Venker said, Women should stay home and thank men

Fox News host Anna Kooiman was advised by anti-feminist crusader Suzanne Venker to quit her job and get married because women should spend more time “thanking men” for the ability to stay home and take care of children.

In a column on FoxNews.com last week, Venker — who is Phyllis Schalfly’s niece — argued that today’s women had been deluded into thinking that they could live without a husband.

During an interview with Venker on Sunday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was totally on board the premise of the column because he said, “I rely completely on my wife.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/08/fox-news-guest-tells-female-host-to-quit-get-married-have-babies-and-thank-men/

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anti-feminist crusader Suzanne Venker said, Women should stay home and thank men (Original Post) UCmeNdc Dec 2013 OP
I suppose that Venker - like her aunt, Schalfly - enlightenment Dec 2013 #1
We can do without the likes of her. In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #2
Irony anyone! whistler162 Dec 2013 #3
wayyyy back, during the fight for ratification of the ERA, I had occasion to ask pink-pearl phyllis niyad Dec 2013 #4
dear ms. wanker (oops, venker), I hereby suggest, quietly and politely, that you take your niyad Dec 2013 #5
So, where is my husband? Is this twit going to send me one, postage paid?? kestrel91316 Dec 2013 #6
Ugh sakabatou Dec 2013 #7
Here's my thank you, Suzanne. Beacool Dec 2013 #8

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)
1. I suppose that Venker - like her aunt, Schalfly -
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:41 PM
Dec 2013

spends most of her waking hours outside the home, running her crusade to tell women to get back in the kitchen.

The rotten fruit doesn't fall far from that blighted family tree, obviously - and a generation hasn't improved their ability to practice what they preach.

niyad

(113,303 posts)
4. wayyyy back, during the fight for ratification of the ERA, I had occasion to ask pink-pearl phyllis
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:50 PM
Dec 2013

if she didn't see it as a wee bit hypocritical to be running around the country telling women to stay home and rear their offspring and wait on their husbands, while nannies and other household staff took care of hers. she walked off in a huff.

that was not the only time I encountered her. another time, I asked her (since she was frothing at the mouth that the ERA would mandate unisex bathrooms) if the females and males in her house used separate facilities.

niyad

(113,303 posts)
5. dear ms. wanker (oops, venker), I hereby suggest, quietly and politely, that you take your
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:54 PM
Dec 2013

antiquated, sexist, patriarchal, woman-hating opinions back to your house, and stay there, SILENTLY. like your hypocritical aunt, you engage in exactly the behaviour you tell other women they shouldn't. take your own advice, get off the stage, go home, thank you husband, and retire to the obscurity you so richly merit.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
6. So, where is my husband? Is this twit going to send me one, postage paid??
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 02:37 PM
Dec 2013

Because I would welcome the chance to retire and stay at home and putter around all day.

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