# Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92 - Does anybody care? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 5, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155 "2016-09-05T23:58:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155/321 "2016-09-17T16:49:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Where’s the love for Edward Albee? “Virginia Woolf” struck a little too close to home for me to say anything but, “Gee, thanks for reminding me.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155/322 "2016-09-17T17:01:32Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Hey, not everyone’s death garners 7 pages of attention from Dopers. > > Where’s the love for Edward Albee? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=804861](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=804861) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155/323 "2016-09-17T18:07:16Z")
We will all miss his light touch and puckish wit. Not since Wodehouse did we have a writer with that sort of gentle good humor and sweet generosity! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155/324 "2016-09-17T18:26:00Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Thus illustrating the point that I come in for more abuse than I dish out, albeit in this case the abuse is fairly weak, impotent, and apparently spurred by the fact that I sent you a PM advising you I’d answered your post and thanking you for its civil tone. I guess you decided you’d better throw an insult in there to keep yourself in good standing with the posters who serve as guideposts for your own contributions (such as they are) and who bear me animus. I’d hate for you to find yourself on the outside looking in once again after working so hard to get to the point where you can offer the occasional post without immediately being slammed for following the crowd. I’m disappointed to see you respond this way but not all that surprised. In fact I half-way expected it. It’s been my experience on this board that whenever an adversary approaches me in an apparently conciliatory way, they then respond with abuse once I answer take them at face value and respond with the same curtesy they pretended to show me. But meh, c’est la vie, eh wot? 😉 Would you care for some cheese with your whine? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155/325 "2016-09-19T11:23:42Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > And there’s nothing new about some level of glamorizing of criminals – bank robbers and highwaymen have always been romanticized… there’s nothing new about this. This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means. Indeed. From Dick Turpin to Dillinger, from Robin Hood to Stagger Lee, the urge to romanticize “bad boys” and those willing to “stick it to the Man” goes _way_ back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155.md?page=16)