Hulu Series "Mrs America" hate piece on Phyllis Schlafly?

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Don’t know much about her, but I am aware of her son who is all kinds of crazy.
 
The actress playing her is a good actress. It doesn’t seem like a mockery from the clips I’ve seen.
 
I am not sure what her son or any relative has to do with this. We all have relatives who we think are crazy and they may think the same about us, so for sake of discussion, let us be kind.

It sounds like it is a series. I do not know why they would want to do a series on her. It is all past history. The ERA went down a long time ago.

I don’t think there is anything new to learn.
 
Some people enjoy learning about history. Some people weren’t alive then, or didn’t pay attention to the news at the time. There are lots of reasons to make programs about past history, including that things come to light over time that are new about other time periods.
 
Also one can get a different perspective seeing a somewhat larger-than-life figure such as Phyllis Schlafly from hindsight compared to living through the era, provided the series is done with some integrity, a big IF.
 
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Schlafly was extreme as to the ERA and even Masters and Johnson. Some of her positions were very odd and hard to support even as logical.
 
What has come to light. What is new?

That is the issue. The ERA went down. It is past history.

I love history and that is why I watched “The Irishman” about Jimmy Hoffa Sr. Granted the name made me look at the movie but I also had never heard there was a book written about this man on his death bed. “I Paint Houses.”

I thought this part of history was all past and dealt within until this mafia figure made confessions. So there was something new to add to the story.

There is nothing new to add to the ERA. The woman is long dead. If they want to do another documentary on the ERA then fine but this is not a documentary.
 
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Some of her positions were very odd and hard to support even as logical.
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Schlafly was a lot like Fred Phelps: dripping with pure hatred, and luxuriating in being as obnoxious as possible to everyone on a nationwide scale.

It’s sickening that a lot of her hatred was directed toward women, and even more sickening that she found an outlet for her venom in the Religious Right.

Why did they make a series about it? Because TV audiences like to see stuff about awful people: The Sopranos, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and not one, not two, but THREE series about Pope Alexander VI and his charming family. There is just something fascinating about evil when one is protected from it by one’s TV screen or the Big Screen.

And no, it’s nothing new. Audiences have been lapping it up since Shakespeare’s time and before. Titus Andronicus, Othello and King Lear are prime examples.
 
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What has come to light. What is new?
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How would I know? I don’t know about her, nor do I know anything about the program.

The Irishman is not a documentary. Why is that okay to make but a program about Schafley is not? 🤔
 
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“Th Irishman” is not a documentary but the story is based on a a dying man’s story that he wanted told, .that has never been told, about an organization that he worked for. One can choose to believe it or not believe it.

Phyllis Schlafly is long dead.
Two scenes sure to be much discussed: Schlafly’s husband forcing himself sexually on her after she’s had a long and frustrating day, and Schlafly thinking she has made it to the inner circle of Republican political power as part of a meeting with Sen. Barry Goldwater and other men in Washington, only to be asked to serve as note taker for the meeting. Her anger, outrage and humiliation are palpable in both scenes without a word being said .

And here’s a scene you might miss because it goes by so quickly, but should pay attention to: Schlafly having to go to her husband’s office to ask him to sign for a credit card
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Do we want to delve into what happens in other people’s bedrooms? How do we know this? She is not here to defend herself or her husband.
 
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A lot of history is about people who are “long dead.” Schafly was a fascinating political figure in the days when women were not often allowed to be politically-minded, particularly conservative women. That in itself is enough to merit a show about her political and personal life.
 
No it does not stop when the person dies but the truth stops. A writer cannot write that her husband raped her. She cannot defend herself.
 
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Since when is any historical account totally objective without any personal bias, especially when in the form of a television series? I don’t like slander either but I don’t believe this project pretends to be without a personal bias since most every project has one. If it is a little more honest, it might present her side as well instead of depicting her as one-dimensional. That would be better; but we should not expect historical objectivity for, I believe, there is really no such thing.
 
@gam197, how is it that you think you know so much about her truth? Maybe what is in the movie has research backing it up that you don’t know about, but the person writing it does. That is what investigative reporters, historians and good journalists do. And screenplay writers are not just making it up as they go along, they also research their story.
 
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