{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-06T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-05-06T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T18:17:57","slug":"facebook-groups-protesting-phyllis-schaflys-honorary-doctorate-from-washington-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/05\/06\/facebook-groups-protesting-phyllis-schaflys-honorary-doctorate-from-washington-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyllis Schafly to get Honorary Doctorate from Wash U?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The intro of the No honorary doctorate for anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly<\/a> Facebook group:<\/p>\n

Wash. U. will honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly at commencement. WHAT?<\/p>\n

This is the woman who lives the hypocrisy of having a career that takes her around the country lecturing “family values” groups on how women should stay home.<\/p>\n

This is the woman who said of husband-wife rape, “By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape [sic].”<\/p>\n

This is the woman who described sex education classes as “in-home sales parties for abortions.” Do her views fit with the future the men and women of Wash U’s graduating class see for themselves and their peers? Probably not. Then why honor her with them? Wouldn’t having someone like her in the midst of Wash U’s female graduates be incongruous at best, offensive at worst?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

When Jessica posted about this on Feministing<\/a> this morning, she said there were 1100 people in the group; when I joined at 11 a.m., it was up to 1350, and as of 11:15 it’s over 1400. It’s already being discussed broadly (a Google Blog search on phyllis schlafly degree<\/a> currently has 311 hits); a friend forwarded it to me from the Feminist Daily News Wire<\/a>, saying “this’ll set the blogosphere on fire,” and I suspect she’s right.<\/p>\n

The organizers have clearly thought ahead, labeling this group as a discussion group and setting up another, smaller, action-oriented group. They’ve also got contact information for University officials and the press, and some excellent tips such as (“Wash U Alums: Make it very clear to the administration that not only do you disapprove of their choice of honoree, this choice will lose them your contributions. Money talks.”) They’ve got a very clean website<\/a> with links to key information, and an email list.<\/p>\n

Looks like Wash U’s in for some excitement!<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The intro of the No honorary doctorate for anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly Facebook group: Wash. U. will honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly at commencement. WHAT? This is the woman who lives the hypocrisy of having a career that takes her around the country lecturing “family values” groups on how women should stay home. This is the woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,14,16,1],"tags":[25,141,148,323],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-social-sciences","category-tales-from-the-net","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-facebook","tag-feminism","tag-social-network-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}