May 12, 2008

Phyllis Schlafly on marital rape

Here is a hint. she doesn't think it even exists.
Could you clarify some of the statements that you made in Maine last year about martial rape?
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.

Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?

Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.

So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-

Yes, I certainly do."

2 comments:

Tony said...

I remember reading this when it came out in the news and sharing it with my wife. I should have posted on it myself. When I asked her what her take was on Schlafly's position, she laughed out loud; "Are you serious? Certainly she doesn't think that!"

What kind of thinking is this?

Streak said...

I think the word you are looking for is "bad."