On January fifth of this year, conservative icon and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly wrote an article.
I know. I didn’t think it was news either. But I did read the article.
Schlafly was responding to a New York Times piece entitled “The New Math on Campus,” which addresses the ratio of male to female students on college campuses and how it has changed over time.
Said Schlafly:
Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970 it was still nearly 60 percent. Today, however, the male percentage has fallen to the low 40s on most campuses…
This has dramatically changed social relationships and interactions among students. Most girls and even some boys do not like this change, but nobody know what to do about it, and few are even willing to discuss it.
One female student described the new relationship between the sexes like this: ‘Out of that 40 percent male population, there are maybe 20 percent we would consider dating, and out of those twenty percent, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent.’
Anybody who understands human nature realizes that this situation changes behavior. Girls do not want to get left out in the cold, so they compete for men on men’s terms.
This results in more casual hook-ups that are dead-end encounters with no future and no real romantic relationships. A psychology professor described this bluntly: ‘When men have the social power, they create a man’s idea of relationships: more partners, more sex, no commitment.’”
I quote that section of the article in its entirety (the rest of the article talks mainly about academics and athletics programs) so that you can see the ridiculous nature of the feminist response to Ms. Schlafly’s piece. Several articles appearing on sites such as Salon, Jezebel, ProgressWomen, and the Riverfront Times blog, quote Ms. Schlafly as saying the following:
“Women get raped because they go to college.”
And then the genius at ProgressWomen even doubled down with:
“Yes, she really said this.”
Never mind the fact that nowhere in the article does Phyllis Schlafly mention the word “rape” at all. Never mind the fact that the internet, being forever and all that, makes their lack of journalistic integrity clear with a cursory five minute Google search. (The actual origin of the quote seems to be the click-bait Salon headline that reads: “Phyllis Schlafly: Campus Sex Assault is on the Rise Because Too Many Women go to College.”)
Oh. And also never mind the fact that Ms. Schlafly is on point.
