BONUS EPISODE: The Real "Mrs. America"

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Some of you may know about the new program Mrs. America, FX’s new nine-part mini-series that began on April 15. If you click here to read about it, you’ll go down a rabbit hole. It has received loads of media attention.

Mrs. America is the story of the feminist movement’s efforts to ratify the ERA and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly—who, as it happens, is my mother’s sister.

Mrs. America may be peppered with historical facts, but the storyline about Phyllis is pure propaganda. It’s a revenge drama.

I’ll spend this hour discussing the real woman behind the screen.

Joy Pullmann of The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/author/joy-pullmann/) and Suzanne Venker explore what the FX on HULU series "Mrs. America" gets right and so very wrong about Suzanne's aunt, Phyllis Schlafly.

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0:00.0	Broadcasting from the Harris Saloon Corporate Offices, it's the Suzanne Venker Show,
0:12.9	where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature.
0:17.2	Join us here every week when we challenge the culture's hugely flawed narratives regarding men,
0:22.6	women, sex, and love. So this is a special bonus podcast I wanted to do in response to the new
0:30.4	FX Hulu series, Mrs. America, which premiered last week and tells the story of how the 1970s Equal Rights Amendment was defeated,
0:40.6	much to the dismay of feminists who were convinced that making the Constitution sex neutral would be good for women.
0:47.9	Please join me to welcome me, Ellis Schlafly.
0:53.3	They say that women are like tea bags.
0:57.0	You don't know their strength until they get into hot water.
1:01.0	We need to talk about the threat of the women's liberation movement.
1:07.0	So let me be clear.
1:09.0	I am not against women working outside the home. That's their choice.
1:13.6	What I am against is a small elitist group putting down homemakers. They want to create a sex-neutral society,
1:23.6	which will mean that women are going to find themselves with two full-time jobs.
1:28.2	So you need to tell your senators you want them to vote no on this equal rights amendment.
1:34.6	So we can have a country that we are proud to leave our daughters.
1:40.0	So if any of you haven't seen that, that is a clip of Kate Blanchett playing Phyllis Schlafly,
1:47.6	who happens to be my aunt. And it has been kind of a wild ride to watch this series or to begin
1:54.1	watching it. And it has gotten tons of publicity. And if you follow me on Facebook, you've probably
2:00.1	seen how inundated
2:02.2	I have been with posts regarding this whole fiasco. And I have asked my friend Joy Pullman of
2:09.4	the Federalist to join me today. And some of you will remember her from when I had her on last
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