Apparently this is a good week for blogging about sexism

In this interview on HuffPo, antifeminist activist Phyliss Schaffly asserts that “None of the feminists’ goals, including the Equal Rights Amendment, offered women a single benefit they didn’t have before, zip. But it would have taken away a lot of the rights and benefits women then possessed such as the right to be exempt from the military and the right of a wife to be supported by her husband. Feminists demeaned marriage and motherhood even though most women want marriage and motherhood. Feminism has run its course, and surveys show that women are not as happy now as they were in the 1950s.”
The question before us is, is Schaffly a baldfaced liar, or is she simply an expert at the NahNahNah I Can’t Hear You school of blocking out inconvenient facts that disagree with her worldview.
The benefits that have been gained by feminism?
•One of our last two Democratic presidential contenders was a woman. We’ve had two female Secretaries of State in a row (I’m not a fan of Condoleeza Rice, but it’s still significant) and now four female Supreme Court justices.
•Sexual harassment is taken seriously. Of course, Schaffly’s view of harassment (stated in a column some years ago) is that it’s a fitting punishment for sluts: Men respect virtuous women, but if a woman’s giving it away, naturally they feel entitled to a share.
•Rape is taken far more seriously. Although antifeminists still want to turn back the clock on that.
•Society takes seriously the idea that women should have equal opportunity to men. Not that glass ceilings and workplace sexism don’t exist, but they’re not uncontested and we no longer hold them up as the unquestioned right of men to get all the jobs.
•Spousal abuse is taken seriously.
•It’s no longer illegal to be a lesbian.
•Married woman can get credit, buy a house, open an account without having to have their husband’s say-so.
As for demeaning marriage and motherhood, feminism is more about making sure women get an equal shake: Pointing out how much work women do that’s taken for granted, the advantage it gives men in the workplace and the stigma that still attaches to working mothers.
Phyliss Schaffly posing as a supporter of women’s rights is like Dracula posing as a defender of necks.