Ridiculous Article From Time Magazine: Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin

[kpete]

Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin

By BELINDA LUSCOMBE Fri Oct 3, 5:55 AM ET

Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don't just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe - deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.

Here's why Palin doesn't make the grade:

1. She's too pretty. This is very bad news. At school, pretty girls tend to be liked only by other pretty girls. The rest of us, whose looks hover somewhere around underwhelming, resent them and whisper archly of their "unearned attention." So, if everyone calls your candidate "hot," you're in a whole mess of trouble. If the Pakistani head-of-state more or less hits on her, well, yes, she'll get a sympathy vote, but we're in Dukakis-in-the-tank territory. It's an admiration vaporizer. (Of course a candidate can't be too ugly, or it will scare the men, who are clearly shallow as a gender.)

2. She's too confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky.

3. She could embarrass us. History is not on Palin's side. Every time a woman gets a plum job, be she Hewlett-Packard's ex-boss, Carly Fiorina, or CBS's Katie Couric, there's always that whispery fear that people will think she got the job just because she's a woman. So if things don't go well - and a couple of YouTube clips have suggested that they're certainly not going well for Palin - women are the first to turn on her for making it harder for the rest of us to louse up at work.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081003/us_time/whysomewomenhatesarahpalin

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A totally sexist article!...and written by a woman! I wonder if she is projecting much....

I hate Palin because of her stand on issues...and that is all!!!!

[Blue_Tires]

2. so no one is hating because she's unqualified

it's because we're all jealous of her beauty, intelligence and success in life!

now i get it!

[marshall]

22. Normal Obama supporters don't "hate" Palin

They simply find her unqualified for the office and do not agree with her politics.
That's the rational approach.

[lligrd]

3. You're Right. What An Asinine Article. nt

[seabeyond]

4. just another way for society to repress women. dismiss them, degrade them, call them names

a woman says anything..... she is prude, asexual, ugly, jealous, fundamentalist..... just shut the fuck up women. be our sluts and whores and things to do with as we please

fuck this fuckin shit.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. This is a whole pile of wrong. nt

[Window]

6. Pretty is as pretty does. Sarah Palin is UGLY!

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. what a load of insulting bull shit

you gotta keep women in line ya know ! After all, we can't think for ourself(hormones ya know)

say it aint so , Joe:sarcasm:

[dorktv]

8. I had a feeling it would be bad but not this bad.

[panader0]

9. I, for one (as a man), do not think Palin is so pretty.

And I resent the "shallow as a gender" crack. Shallowness is not gender specific.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. i am pretty and confident. Personally i think I am a lot prettier than Palin

and i have the self esteem to not care, if someone disagrees.

Yet, i still detest her.

So baloney to the article.

[PCIntern]

13. Your post is useless without a picture!!

:hi:

(just kidding...really)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. lol. i will give her this, she is in far better shape than i am

[seabeyond]

18. ya.... cause this is another adolescent, put women in their place, over used

and childish comment we hear so, too often.

i have decided, these males are kids or a bunch of men that have chips on their shoulders and cant get any

[lady raven]

30. Sorry, but I just don't get it

Just because she's not painful to look at doesn't make her "pretty". My husband and I both had the same thought about her looks: "nondescript". "Plain". Nothing wrong with being nondescript or plain, but all this "milf" talk baffles me. Seriously.

[Bucky]

11. Why are woman so hateful? Several reasons actually

1. They're moody

2. They're bitter and jealous

3. They're less educated than men, what with all that baby makin' they have to do.

4. They are way too hormonal

5. They can't drive as good as men

6. It's, you know, that time again

7. Every time they think about what's bothering them, they hit the water works

8. Their husbands don't keep them in line like in the good ol' days

9. They always panic and fall down, or one of their high heels breaks, just as the monster is about to catch them

10. They pull their shirts up over their heads for Mardi Gras beads or because there's a Girls Gone Wild camera shooting them



Yep, there's a whole mess of reasons why the ladies just can't vote for Sarah Palin. I'm sure none of it has to do with the economy or the endless war in Iraq, which is all man-talk, after all, and what would the wimminfolk know about stuff like that.

If you are a female DUer, I apologize for having used big words in this post.

[Chorophyll]

12. Yessss. Our evil plan is working...

Palin will tank because us evil, superficial women don't like "pretty" girlssss. Cackle cackle cackle.

Jesus Christ. I can't even bring myself to comment on what an Epic Fail this article is. I'm just gonna bash my head into my desk instead.

:nuke:

[seabeyond]

19. i yelled at hubby. he came home with a kick ass golf score and off i went

on the article and all the other shit.....

told him if i were twenty i would be a lesbian.

then, i thank him for allowing me to yell

and he said

vent darlin, you vented.....

ah

i love him

[IndianaGreen]

14. No, Palin is a Christian Dominionist and Creationist that will be worse than Cheney

as VP and, if McCain drops dead as the actuarial tables predict he will during his first term, will make the most dangerous fascist ever to take power since Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo.

[Lady-Damai]

15. Too pretty?! Lmao..........n/t

[stolivodka]

17. Men are clearly shallow as a gender.

That's why 99% of humanity's achievements have been done by men. Stupid shallow men!

Why is it always women who write about how Palin being "pretty" gets her cheap "male votes" and loses her superior "female votes"? I guess that's a big deal for women, who are clearly shallow as a gender. :sarcasm:

PS: Palin is not "pretty". As a man, I find her revolting, actually. Also, speaking as a man, never once has "How pretty is this candidate?" entered into my political decision making equation. The Repukes who go around saying how attractive Palin is do so because they have no idea what her political beliefs are, because she's only done like 4 interviews where she talked about Hockey and provincial energy policy.

[seabeyond]

21. my husband is with you. in my "venting" he said and all the males that called bullshit on this?

was that mentioned

of course it wasnt, that would make males look too good. just as it would if this female writer had addressed the REAL issues why women turned on palin

this article is an insult to both genders....

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. Uh, wrong. We hate her because she is UNQUALIFIED

for the position she is running for. A position a man chose for her. She is not intelligent enough or savvy enough. She is an insult to women everywhere, especially those who have broken their backs to get where they are today.

[Teacher in SC]

28. Thank you!

[pot luck]

23. WTF?

"The fact of the matter is once a female decides it's over with another female, it's like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay for their own rape test kits."

Charging rape victims for rape test kits is benign?

[Chorophyll]

27. The p.o.s. who wrote this article is either attempting

to be ironic and failing HUGELY, or else she's a self-hating Palin-clone with a thesaurus.

[seabeyond]

29. OR (it dawned on me) she is semi pretty, gives blow jobs to boss, all the women

reject her cause they know she is totally classless.... (and the totally classless females really are the envious ones) and she identifies with palin saying it is the women jealous of her. i see it enough with females that spread legs at the drop of hat to "feel loved"

i am just really angry now.

venting

on edit: re reading your post i think #2 was already this scenerio. well, still leaving it, cause it felt good to say it

[vanderBeth]

24. What woman wrote this? Camille Paglia?

[seabeyond]

26. she is a piece of shit huh?. oooops, that is just me being jealous.

my bad

[Democat]

25. Palin is "too pretty" and McCain is "too young"!

And they hate us for our freedoms! :puke:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

31. Never once does it mention reality

I dislike being lied to but this article is way into pure fantasy.

The reason I can't tolerate Palin has zero to do with her looks or confidence - Oh, and she already has embarrassed us.

I dislike her because she is a liar, a manipulator and she is a religious kook. She hates animals and murders them from helicopters. She is stupid and ignorant. Her politics are sick and she wants to be in everyones bedroom monitoring their sexual preferences.

I would much rather like her but it isn't possible for the reason I listed.