Slight change of plans

We’ve turned up the thermostat to deal with the rising cold and last night our bedroom felt like a Turkish bath. So I got little sleep so instead of a deep, thoughtful post—links!
•Defeating the Dragons has written a lot about Fascinating Womanhood, a book that explains how if a woman makes herself perfectly subservient to her husband and lives to be the person he wants her to be, her marriage will be paradise. In the introduction to the dissection, DtD explains why this is not a good idea. Here’s the most recent post. It’s a creepy look at a view that’s definitely not dead and gone (as the posts point out). I remember the same theories in The Total Woman, a 1970s book that took the ideas mainstream (it was a huge bestseller at the time). I don’t know if that author, Marabel Morgan was plagiarizing, or simply dipping into the same pool of views.
•Anti-immigrationist William Gheen says he’s not a racist, he just opposes attempts to change America’s proud history: “The name of their game is that since America has been traditionally a center-right nation for 200 years, has been predominately governed by people of European descendancy and Christian, different denominations of Christianity and deist backgrounds, they’re trying to knock that down. So they’re looking for any way to create division among any group.”
In short, we’ve gone from giving at least lip service to “anyone can make it in America!” to anyone making it so long as they stay in their place (likewise we’ve gone from the ideal of immigrants coming to the US for love of freedom to Phyliss Schaffly declaring that people who come from oppressive countries are obviously unsuited to democracy).
As for creating division, have you noticed it’s always the nonwhites who are trying to do that? Two centuries ago, it was abolitionists dividing America. Fifty years ago, it was the civil rights movement. Never the slavers or the segregationists. Just as today Al Sharpton and the “race hustlers” are divisive but the right-wingers warning of Obama’s black armies aren’t dividing us. Nor is Gheen’s declaration that only white people should run the country (anyone want to bet he’s not counting Hispanics descended from Spain as “European”) or Bryan Fischer proclaiming the First Amendment only protects Christians.
•And here’s more bad right-wing blogging ideas.