Premiering Wednesday, MrsAm_FXonHulu can teach a new generation of women how to fight the good fight, and dress for themselves, but also highlights that there’s still a long way to go.
as the ultra-conservative Phyllis Schlafly, antagonist to the 1970s feminists Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan, who were fighting for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA was first introduced to Congress in 1923 and today, though Virginia became the 38th state to back it in January, its future is still uncertain., but Schlafly is the anchor character, an antihero with a Stepford beehive.
One example is Paulson’s fictional character, Alice, the one whom Schlafly tells to fix her face and the one who first alerted Schlafly to the ERA movement. Without spoiling too much, Alice and Schlafly’s friendship dissolves, thanks in large part to Alice’s feminist awakening. In the final scene between them, Alice is sitting in her car dropping her daughter off at Schlafly’s house. Schlafly approaches her and says with great shock, “you’re wearing a suit.
Indeed, Schlafly is in her own self-inflicted Mrs. America competition, fighting tooth and nail, with plenty of hairspray and a string of pearls, to beat the feminists at all costs. It’s a war that many are still fighting for her posthumously, just as so many, thankfully, are fighting for equal rights nearly 100 years later after the ERA was first drafted.
In the final moment we see Schlafly on screen, she’s staring out the window with tears welling up in her eyes after getting a call from then President-Elect Ronald Reagan, explaining that despite her hopes and her campaigning for him and securing him the conservative women’s vote, he would not be offering her a position in his cabinet. Her husband says, “too bad,” and asks what time dinner is. “It’s at six, it’s always at six,” she says.
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