"Mirror, mirror, on the wall..."

Who's who?*

     In the guise of a guest lecture at a poli sci class, advice on how to land a slammin' babe:

          [Conservative activist Phyllis] Schlafly, who led a grass-roots fight to prevent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, spoke Wednesday at The Citadel as part of the military college’s new course, Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America.

          Most women are concerned about issues such as jobs and religious liberty, Schlafly said, not issues being drummed up by feminists to foster support for President Barack Obama.

          And feminists are working through the media and other channels because the American public no longer seems to strongly support their agenda, Schlafly said. “Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,” she said.

          Schlafly talked to a group of Citadel students about the culture of conservatism and the history of the religious right. She told the all-male group that “feminist is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad.”

And she warned them about having personal relationships with feminists. “Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,” she said. “Some of them are pretty. They don’t all look like Bella Abzug.”

     Mrs. Schlafly is 87 years old.**

Bella Abzug was a liberal political activist who served in Congress from 1971 to 1977. She died in 1998, when the average Citadel cadet was somewhere between four and eight years old. Nothing like up-to-the-minute cultural references to hold your audience's interest.

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     *Mrs. Abzug is in the black-and-white photo.

     **Conversation around the Schlafly holiday dinner table must be interesting:

          "On October 20, 1949, Phyllis married lawyer John Fred Schlafly, Jr. and remained married until he died in 1993. They moved to Alton, Illinois and had six children: John, Bruce, Roger, Liza, Andrew, and Anne.^[10] In 1992, their eldest son, John, was outed as gay by Queer Week magazine.^[11][12] Schlafly acknowledged that John is gay, but stated that he embraces his mother's views.^[11][13] Their son Andrew founded Conservapedia, a conservative open-source encyclopedia, after voicing concerns that Wikipedia had a liberal bias.^[14]"