Sarah Palin: "One Giant Step Backwards For Womankind"

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One Giant Step Backwards For Womankind


Jenna Orkin

Whether to cry or vomit, that is the question that so readily and so often pops into mind these days. Any woman, possibly disgruntled at the defeat of Hillary, who cheers the choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate for a Presidential candidate needs to stop and think ahead a step or two: Say McCain, who, whatever theoretical good qualities he may have, has rarely been accused of youth, becomes indisposed to the point of no longer being able to govern. We now have our first female President. Wow. Inexperienced and, in a party not short on machismo, anxious to prove herself one of the boys, Palin is a tad overzealous in an era that calls for depth of thought and understanding.

As the world is on the brink of disaster anyway, her mistakes are magnified and the results, calamitous.

The country, or whatever is left of it, says, "You see? We had a woman President and what happened?"

It will be the end of female power for aeons; again, if there are any.

If Obama wins, he too, will be biting off more than he can chew (since it's more than anybody can chew) and will be destined to fail. But he does not face the same fate as far as history goes. He will be blamed for what happens but only as an individual and not, I think, because of his race (except among racists who were against him anyway.) In other words, racism is alive and well but it is not so pervasive as anti-feminism. It's not politically correct to be a racist and there has been a sea change in progress over the last fifty years.

Feminism has seen progress in tangible areas such as admission to medical school and token CEOs but less in intangibles such as attitudes, assumptions and beliefs. The supposed differences between men and women are still the stuff of arguments and sitcoms. Nobody would ever write a book saying that one race is from Mars and another, from Venus.

So if the moment the wrecking ball strikes, McCain steps out of the way (possibly via a heart attack) and Palin is poised to catch it, then like Eve, she will earn her honorary male status as the fall guy.

--JO

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1. kick

:kick:

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2. Awesome. Somebody post this at the PUMA sites.

If anyone can actually stomach it. I'm afraid I'm unable.

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3. 3 recommends and one post?

I guess that's not a bad thing.

[beac]

4. Apparently the legally-insane president of the LA chapter of NOW came out and endorsed Palin

at a rally in CA:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4173516


The combo of Sarah Palin and the Vagina-Americans promoting her has already done MASSIVE harm to women.



Contact NOW here to let them know what you think of their PUMA chapter president:

National Organization for Women
1100 H Street NW, 3rd floor
Washington, D.C. 20005

Phone: [phone] (628-8NOW)

Fax: [phone]

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5. While I agree with your opinion on the LA NOW president (whatever she's smoking)

The term "Vagina-Americans " is just disgustingly inappropriate.

[beac]

6. 'Vagina-Americans' is a term coined by the Daily Show to describe PUMA-Palin voters..

See:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=183521&title=John-McCain-Chooses-a-Running-Mate

(see approx minute 2:55)


BTW, I HAVE a vagina and the kind of women the term describes are 1000x more offensive than ANY term could ever be.

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7. And that's supposed to make it NOT inappropriate? Bullshit.

So maybe I'll just start calling males "penis bearing elements" (PBEs for short) and deny you your humanity too.

[beac]

8. Hello?

Did you not get the part where I said I too AM A WOMAN in my reply to you?

My reference was to a current pop-culture piece of humor about a group of women who are dishonoring the rest of us by ONLY caring what reproductive parts a candidate has.

Since you LIST 'The Daily Show' in your profile as a hobby, I would think you would KNOW that.

Please calm down.