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Meet Janis Lane: Tea Party Leader And Anti-Feminist

Janis Lane is the Tea Party leader in Mississippi and she appears to long for the days when women were happy chattel. Lane had made headlines in complaining that women are inherently poorly suited to not just serve as bosses but to vote.


Lane explained that “Probably the biggest turn we ever made was when the women got the right to vote. Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting.” A former marketing director who now leads the party in Central Mississippi, Lane further observed that “There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person . . . I do not see that in men. The whole time I worked, I’d much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you never can trust them.”

Once again, it is remarkable how some of our radicalized citizens share striking similarity with our enemies like the Taliban who would agree wholeheartedly with Lane on her view of women.

Source: Daily Mail

289 thoughts on “Meet Janis Lane: Tea Party Leader And Anti-Feminist”

  2. Just an aside. While doing genealogical research I keep running up against early unstated patriarchy. If it isn’t that a wife’s name is totally unknown, or at least her last name is unknown, then there are the lovely tombstone inscriptions: “John Doe and wife.” I wonder if Ms Lane wants to become that anonymous?

  5. Ms Lane> “They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person . . . I do not see that in men.”<

    Really? Have you ever spent an hour with two or three gay men? Women ain't got nothin on US (as a gay man myself, I claim the right to make that comparison)! My guess is this woman is probably Southern Baptist, teaches Sunday School, sings in the choir, and gleefully pulls the wings off of small flying insects, similar to most of the female side of my family. Oh, and, she probably doesn't consider gay men as 'men' anyway.

    1. Kraken,

      I’m not gay but I’ve spent an hour or two with men who think they’re real men and they can dish as well. The difference is they don’t have the humor and the engaging wit.:)

  6. Elaine, No, She makes Schlafly look like a feminist. This lady describes her self as a true god fearing christian patriot.

  10. How about this guy?

    Democrats Aren’t Real Catholics, Says Kansas Senate Candidate
    By Zack Beauchamp
    Oct 16, 2012
    http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/16/1019861/democrats-arent-real-catholics-says-kansas-senate-candidate/

    A candidate for State Senate in Kansas believes that Catholics, and Christians more broadly, who support Democrats cannot be true believers in Christ. Republican Steve Fitzgerald, challenging incumbent Catholic Democrat Kelly Kultala, told the left-leaning Polish American Club that the Democratic Party had become un-Christian. When asked if he stood by his remarks by the Huffington Post, Fitzgerald escalated:

    My main point is that the Democratic platform and policies nationally are an attempt to redefine marriage in effect to say what Christ has said about marriage is a lie. Christ said marriage is between one man and one woman and the Democratic platform said that it’s not true. So therefore, my point was that one cannot support the Democratic platform and be a follower of Christ. …The contention that I said that one cannot be Catholic or Christian and a Democrat is not an unreasonable summation of what I actually said. My actual message was fix the party or leave.

    Fitzgerald explicitly excommunicated his opponent, saying that “she calls herself a Catholic and I don’t know how she does that.” However, on the issues Fitzgerald cites, American Catholics are much more in line with Kultala than him: two-thirds support keeping abortion legal and three-quarters favor either full marriage equality or civil unions, with a plurality supporting the former. Catholic theology on assisting the poor is also far more in line with Democratic policy priorities, which seek to sustain a strong social safety net, than Republican ones.

    This isn’t the first controversial comment made by Fitzgerald, who has said that Obamacare has put “the American Republic…on the endangered species list.” But when asked about the controversy generated by his remarks on Catholic Democrats, Fitzgerald said that “I can’t believe this is getting attention.”

  11. Elaine, I was just going to put that up. I guess we can thank Gore v. Bush for that.

  13. Some Supreme Court News:

    BREAKING: SUPREME COURT LEAVES EARLY VOTING IN PLACE IN OHIO | Earlier this month, a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down an Ohio law cutting back early voting for most Ohio voters. Today, the Supreme Court rejected a request by the state to stay this decision. The Court’s denial of the stay did not explain the justices’ reasoning and did not include a dissent. Moreover, because their order only concerned the request for a stay, it is possible — if unlikely — that the justices will still decide to hear this case at a later date. Nevertheless, today’s order means that the new restrictions on early voting almost certainly will not be in effect during next month’s election.

    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/16/1022671/breaking-supreme-court-leaves-early-voting-in-place-in-ohio/

  15. What OS said. How can one complain about a class they belong to being involved in the political and electoral processes while themselves participating in said political and electoral processes without being anything short of staggeringly hypocritical? They can’t. Then again, she’s a Tea Bagger. Contradiction is at the core of almost everything they do.

  16. You ever notice how the people that are the most likely to claim that everyone is really (insert negative trait here) are the ones that are most likely to be that way?

    Something tells me she likes to believe that all women are “Double-minded, you never can trust them” to excuse her own misdeeds.

  17. ” … remember the 40′s and 50′s in this Country. Women were oppressed even then, …” (Mike S.)

    The “white glove” years.

    1. “The “white glove” years.”

      Blouise,

      Ah yes, when being “ladylike” was more important than being yourself. I can still remember my mother wearing hats with veils and she was a fairly liberated woma.

  18. Now where do you find women like this other than Mississippi….. Now is she needing campaign donation….. I think she’s perfectly situated…..for what, im not sure….

  19. MikeS, I tire of the “He’s Hitler” “He’s Pol Pot” “She’s Taliban” hyperbole. I don’t give short shrift, Mike, I just speak my mind as do you. Reasonable people can disagree civilly which is what you and I do. If you consider me being uncivil please tell me. However, in this case I’ll just have to go to my mother’s favorite phrase, “To each their own.” It is the basis of my libertarianism. That doesn’t mean I agree but I will defend your right to say it. I had a couple jobs where I swore to uphold the constitution. I still consider myself under oath, even though a broken down, old PI.

  20. “Lane had made headlines in complaining that women are inherently poorly suited to not just serve as bosses but to vote.”

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    edited: “Lane had made headlines in complaining that > Tea Party< women are inherently poorly suited to not just serve as bosses but to vote."

    There, that's better.

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