It sounds like the pro ERA side was full of the usual cultural marxist agitators (central and eastern euro types who arrived in the states in the 1890-1910 and these were their kids or grandkids…versus liberty loving and I hate to say this but it is obvious Christians. The vault is patriarchy, the locked-up fortune is equal rights and equal wages, and the recurring strategic question is whether to keep gently turning the lock back and forth until the right combination reveals itself, or just blow the bloody doors off.
(If you subscribe to a service through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission. It’s amazing how quickly, “My Body, My Choice!” always manages to morph into “My Body, My Choice, Your Wallet!”, isn’t it? Privileges come with responsibilities. She starts an anti-ERA group called STOP ("Stop Taking Our Privileges") and begins drawing a national following. Schlafly’s daughter offered to help and the producers turned her down, https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a32255873/phyllis-schlafly-mrs-america-anne-daughter-interview/, Schlafly Cori said she emailed producers after FX announced the new series in 2018 in the hope of participating in some capacity, but never got a response. Also, we know perfectly well that, if ratified, the ERA would have been read by the courts as a charter of “abortion rights.”. The draft has been dead since 1972 – and its discontinuation has allowed the Army to discover that a few well-trained volunteers on long enlistments are vastly superior to masses of draftees on an enlistment too short for thorough training. Report abuses. Jeanne Tripplehorn is Phyllis's lonely, middle-aged sister-in-law ("Why didn't anyone marry me?"). Perhaps there is something about secular jews versus the “old right” because it always seems these are the sides..very ver strange. The series’ on-screen feminism is mirrored behind the scenes, too. With the exception of the duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel), all the directors are women, as is the show’s creator, Dahvi Waller (Mad Men). We see that Ms. magazine editor Gloria Steinem (glowingly portrayed by Rose Byrne) is a casual bohemian with a painful secret in her past and that she's resisting calls to become the pretty, press-friendly face of the feminist revolution.
Have not seen this one, however I have noticed the docudrama’s are getting less obviously pro one side d and closer to telling the story. "They're not expecting a fight." Meet the Highest-Polling Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate in the Country, Illinois' Governor Begs Citizens To Let Government Tax Them Even More, Occupational Licensing Reform Is a Biden Policy We Can All Favor.
Her trajectory becomes crucial, if a bit too conveniently plotted, as the series moves towards its end. Maybe the writer supports egalitarianism, but many people including some feminists do not. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. As a critic at the pro-Schlafly Daily Wire put it, "Early reviews suggest" that the series "paints the social conservative in a most unflattering light." Aduba captures her strength, passion and sense of abandonment when she is persuaded it's time to drop out of the presidential race. You’re horrible no matter what. But it's Schlafly's opponents who receive the series' most detailed examination. Share on Facebook Share on Linkedin. None. It’s part horror film, part family video, all fart jokes. When Schlafly rails against “the libbers” and gripes about “a small elitist group of northeastern establishment liberals putting down the homemakers,” her language echoes not just Richard Nixon’s White House pre-Watergate tapes, but press speeches and press briefings by Reagan, both Bushes, Trump, and the entirety of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Channel, and Breitbart. Created and mostly written by Mad Men screenwriter-producer Dahvi Waller, and co-produced and frequently co-directed by Anna Bowden and Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel), the FX on Hulu limited series brings many leaders of mid-century American feminism into one storyline, and rarely passes up a chance to pack four or five of them into the same room, the better to showcase how different they all were. I mean, “Stop Taking Our Privileges” was a clear call to take a moment to re-think this whole equality thing and realize that equality is a two-edged sword. At one point, Schlafly and her allies — including Banks’ Ruckelshaus, often the lone conservative at ERA strategy meetings, and Schlafly’s pal Alice, a fictionalized composite character played by Sarah Paulson — figure out that the best way to appeal to the status quo, including centrist and conservative women, is by pampering and flattering them, rather than, in Friedan’s cautionary words, “telling them marriage is prostitution and alimony is war reparations.” Thus is the Illinois state legislature enticed to reject the ERA, based in part on conservative women delivering loaves of fresh bread to politicians, embracing the “happy homemaker” stereotype that Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique suggested was a cover for dissatisfaction. So who plays Phil Donahue who pimped out those feminist leaders to American housewives convincing them they were living in gulags? She also worries that her pioneering efforts were taken for granted by younger women, a concern that Steinem addresses in a gut-punch conversation that occurs just when Friedan needs to hear it most. "This is why they hate us," Steinem mutters. The Waco series ended up being a lot better than I expected. But she never loses that frozen smile, placidly absorbing sexism along the way. Contrary to what this author writes, Phyllis did not just have “ties” to the John Birch Society. Schlafly was a dark-mirror reflection of the angry feminists she so ferociously opposed. Mrs America review: A smart tale of an anti-feminist icon. Even at the federal level the Obama administration signed and enforced provisions to ensure “equal pay”. Share on Twitter . Say Goodbye To Your Old Job! Ronald Reagan, whose presidency rolled back gains that women, racial minorities, LGBTQ activists, and unions had made in preceding decades, is a looming though unseen presence throughout the first few episodes — the human equivalent of that place described by Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, where the “wave” of the counterculture “finally broke and rolled back.”, Don’t have Hulu yet?
Phyllis and her pro-family adherents are angered by feminist slogans like Friedan's "Marriage is a comfortable concentration camp." Rachel Brosnahan Thoughtfully Explains What Dog Each of Her Characters Would Be, Taylor Swift Lends Her Voice to Get Out the Vote Ad, Amber Ruffin As ‘a Melania Trump’ Won Late Night This Week. Occupational licensing rules are more often arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles than they are protections for health or safety. Lawmakers are bribing citizens with a tiny tax break in exchange for the power to jack up income tax rates down the line. ), The story begins with Phyllis, a Goldwater Republican, paying little attention to the ERA, even though it's been ratified by 28 of the 38 states it needs to become law.
Instalments called Phyllis, Shirley, Gloria and more become mini portraits of distinct characters in action. Mrs. America, the excellent nine-part series currently midway through its introductory run on FX on Hulu, approaches a still-hot-button political issue in an unusually even-handed way. Friedan believes she is underappreciated, and is often a thorn in the side of others in the movement, resisting their support for gay rights so as not to distract attention from the women’s cause.
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Uzo Aduba (left) is fierce and poignant as Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in Congress. The last of her many books, published in September 2016, the month she died, was titled The Conservative Case for Trump. From the comfort of her spacious house, while the full-time housekeeper cooks and cleans, and her sister-in-law helps care for the children, Schlafly meets with her group of like-minded, comfortably middle-class female friends. Review: Mrs. America The woman who tried to squash feminism. What a crock.
But I never really understood the opposition to the ERA. And here we are. Phyllis Schlafly deserved better than that, That said, I really like Cate Blanchett so I still might give it a shot.
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When one woman at a STOP chapter meeting expresses admiration for a conspiracy-mongering rightwing group, the John Birch Society, Phyliss tells her "Keep that to yourself" (although Schlafly had her own ties to the Birchers, something she long denied).
There has never been a high-profile drama series on this subject, made with a high budget and an all-star cast, and there are times when the result feels like one of those history miniseries that used to air on broadcast networks in the ’90s. Martindale is ideally cast as the brash Abzug, an idealist but also a practical politician who knows what she can and cannot get through Congress. Kurt Loder | 5.8.2020 7:00 AM. During the first couple of hours, you can feel the burden of obligation weighing the production down. I bet that really wrankled her! “That rhyme dropped in my lap, and that’s when I knew God was onboard for us expanding this bit into a full-length song.”, Sean Connery, James Bond Himself, Dead at 90. ("That's practically a rite of passage for a radical feminist," says her proto-woke husband, played by Adam Brody. Some of the dialogue suffers from “I’m so happy that I can finally spend time with my only sister in her beautiful home” syndrome. “They already had the show sketched out, and they weren’t interested in the facts getting in the way of their portrayal.”, She probably didn’t intend to sum up the leftist worldview in that last sentence, but that is how they approach everything.