Women Serving in the Gulf War

Where did you find this Phyllis Schlafly clone? I find her Ronald Reaganesque view of a woman’s “place” to be stifling, demeaning and downright silly. She seems to wish for the nostalgic past of “chivalry” and knights in shining armor where women were “protected (held in bondage?) by the more brutish male.” Her dismissal of a father’s role should be upsetting to men as well as to women: “. . . young children need their mothers more than they need their fathers. Mothers are more important to young children.”

Kenny also seems to be making a value judgment not on mothers leaving their children per se, but on leaving their children to go fight in a war. She states that “Depriving a tiny baby . . . of its mother in this way is a barbaric idea.” She forgets that mothers (and fathers) leave their babies every day as they go to the office; mothers (and fathers) face death every day driving to work on the freeways.

KATHRYN S. TARBELL

Huntington Beach