Roxeanne de Luca is the nom de plume of a young conservative woman that I've come to think of as a "blog friend".

We disagree on many things, but I can usually see her perspective, if not agree with it.

However, she just wrote an entry describing Phyllis Schlafly as a feminist.

Um...what again?

That's Phyllis Schalfly.  You didn't read that wrong.

Now, I don't have quite the antipathy for her of, say, Harlan Ellison, who had a gargoyle sculpted with her face on it and placed it on his roof...and who, in his hyperbolic way declaired his determination to run her over if she ever appeared in his headlights.  I think she's had a useful role in our society.  Mostly, she has been an excellent demonstration of the ugliness of gay-baiting, and she does a fantastic job of painting a vivid picture of the "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" agenda of the traditionalist wing of the conservative world-view.

Nobody defined the idea of anti-feminism quite as clearly as she did. 

Roxeanne seems to view her a forging and alternative direction for feminism.  But that's not at all the sum of Schlafly's legacy.  The whole driving point of her whole career is to roll back the clock to limit women to a few traditional ways to gain power:  as the "little mothers" of infantile husbands, catering and enabeling fragile machismo so that it can be exploited and manipulated; as nagging scolds in some bizzare tyrrany of the helpless; or (if they have them) relying on their feminine charms for manipulation.

She more embodies for me the idea that a "lady" should have "beauty, brains and breeding" to be a better orniment for her man and a better help to his hand.  (Where am I remembering that from?  Seriously, I dont know...and a quick Goggle search didn't turn it up.)

This doesn't even go into the historical lot of women who didn't have a family honor (opportunity for "lady" status) to protect them, and which they, in turn, were required to protect with their "virtue".

The fact that she excused herself from the limitations she tried to push onto others doesn't make her a feminist.  I think there's actually another word for that.