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There is a big hullabaloo, both here in St. Louis, and nationwide, that infamous Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the 2008 Washington University commencement ceremony. Much protesting has ensued, and will continue throughout the festivities tomorrow. I'm anxious to see how it turns out.
For those of you playing the home game, Mrs. Schlafly attended WashU as a 5th generation student, getting both a Bachelors and Law degree from the institution. Since then, she has made it her life's work to fight the very movement that allowed her to seek that prestigious, coveted, privileged education, and to repeatedly tell the population of married American women they cannot be raped by their spouses(due to that pesky 'consent to sex forever and ever' somewhere in between the lines of marriage vows)...
"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." (emphasis mine)
If someone doesn't get the jaw-dropping irony in THAT statement, I think you should give me a call. We should talk.
As if the idea of an internationally-known institute of higher education endorsing (albeit, the administration hopes, indirectly) the spewing of anti-feminist garbage... I have even more irony to lay on ya!!!!
The person being honored before The Schlafly Lady.... Dr. Jessie L. Ternberg, MD. A woman. A surgeon. A trailblazing spitfire, from the sounds of things.
Directly quoting from this profile of Dr. Ternberg:
"Jessie L. Ternberg paved the way for many women... Ternberg was the first woman surgical resident
at Barnes Hospital in 1954. In 1958 she was the first woman chief resident and first woman surgeon
on the WU medical school staff. In 1973 Ternberg was the first woman...head of the University’s School
of Medicine faculty council. Ternberg was promoted to professor of Surgery in 1971. She was instrumental
in establishing the Division of Pediatric Surgery and was named its chief in 1972. Ternberg also was the
first woman to serve as president of the St. Louis Surgical Society.
She routinely performed more than 500 operations a year and was known for her expertise in the area of
correcting congenital gastrointestinal deficiencies in children.
Many honors...the American Schools and Colleges Association’s Horatio Alger Award in 1977. [I]n 1998,
former students and colleagues established the Jessie L. Ternberg Award, to be given annually to a
female medical graduate who best exemplifies Jessie Ternberg’s indomitable spirit of determination,
perseverance and dedication to her patients. In February 2000, Ternberg was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science."
Seeing these two ladies juxtaposed for the same honor by the same institution... It's just too much cognitive dissonance for me. But it makes me chuckle and wonder how some of these crazy assholes live with themselves.
But, I guess there is always someone more crazy!!!
