Why do feminists hate Sarah Palin?
This feminist, Reclusive Leftist, attempts to figure it out. Concludes Palin is the designated hate receptacle. And when I checked, she had 486 comments.- Apparently most feminists — at least the ones online — are content to just take the word of the frat boys at DailyKos or the psycho-sexists at Huffington Post. That amazes me. Aren’t you even interested in who she really is? I want to ask. She’s only the second woman on a presidential ticket in our whole fricking history!
But even weirder is what happens when you try to replace the myths with the truth. If you explain, “no, she didn’t charge rape victims,” your feminist interlocutor will come back with something else: “she’s abstinence-only!” No, you say, she’s not; and then the person comes back with, “she’s a creationist!” and so on. “She’s an uneducated moron!” Actually, Sarah Palin is not dumb at all, and based on her interviews and comments, I’d say she has a greater knowledge of evolution, global warming, and the Wisconsin glaciation in Alaska than the average citizen.
But after you’ve had a few of these myth-dispelling conversations, you start to realize that it doesn’t matter. These people don’t hate Palin because of the lies; the lies exist to justify the hate. That’s why they keep reaching and reaching for something else, until they finally get to “she winked on TV!” (And by the way: I’ve been winked at my whole life by my grandmother, aunts, and great-aunts. Who knew it was such a despicable act?)
. . . Her speech [at the Republican Convention] also delivered some welcome punctures to the national gasbag known as Obama. And that’s another thing: it has not escaped my attention that many of the things Palin is accused of, falsely, are actually true of Obama. This is a guy who, as a U.S. senator from Illinois, didn’t even know which Senate committees he was on or which states bordered his own. (And don’t even get me started on Joe “The Talking Donkey” Biden, who thinks FDR was president during the stock market crash and that people watched TV in those days.) I’m not saying Obama’s a moron, but he’s sure as hell no genius." Read the whole thought at Reclusive Leftist and take a look at the nearly 500 comments.
“Perhaps what I have found viscerally most offensive about the attacks on her are the blogs and distorted photos of that baby. That he is not her natural child. That she has the nerve to give birth to a special needs child. This goes beyond sexism to something very sick in the blogosphere/MSM where such vileness can be spewed. Perhaps we are analogous to the end of the Roman Empire–any sort of spectacle to amuse and keep the masses entertained.”
“There have been 50 million abortions since 1973. That is a lot of women who have lost their children. I’m sure a lot of women are fine with it. But I know there are a lot of women out there who are suffering greatly with guilt and remorse. But feminists aren’t allowed to feel guilty about it. Because they got to choose, god damn it.”
“What has occurred to me is that the way the media and the DC elite have been so condescending is really a reflection of how they really feel about all of us out here in the real world…they think of all of us exactly the way they talk about her…and we are beneath their contempt.” [This has always been my theory--Norma]
“Various “feminists” didn’t want to vote for a woman. They didn’t vote for HRC in the primary, and pretended to think, or convinced themselves they thought, she was a racist who hoped Obama would be assassinated. This didn’t exactly bear up to reasoned analysis. Another more effective mechanism was to decide Obama was the second coming — so who could vote for a mere woman, over that?”
“Palin-hate includes an unhealthy dose of classism as well. She isn’t just a woman, she is a working class woman, a red neck woman, white trash. I know Americans don’t have a class system (they say) but there it is. The other thing is that feminism seems to have enabled women not to become powerful *as women* but to identify with and behave like men. So feminists pile on the misogynist, abusive, slanderous hatred along with the boys as a sign of their equality with them.”
HT Deb
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Dear Norma,
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It's easy to take care of everyone else in our lives, but we tend to forget about ourselves.
Thank you, but I already know my purpose and value. And actually, I think the approach that women who overdo and don't take care of themselves is an idea a bit overdone. Workaholics and caraholics usually feel pretty good about what they are doing, even if it doesn't look that way to the rest of us. It builds their sense of self and importance and value.
Palin's a working class woman who got where she is by actually doing her job, instead of playing the victim card or riding on the coattails of a man. And she makes no apologies for managing to be a woman, a wife, a mother, and a competent human being all at the same time.
Of course the "feminists" hate her. So much of their current rhetoric is about how the patriarchy has held them down, and how they can't get ahead without special help or without denying their own identity, and Sarah's proved them wrong.
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