Palin, feminism and hypocrisy

[DarkHalo]

This is a good read on a number of levels. It exposes the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of liberal feminists. In this article Rebecca Traister starts off by expressing her mixed feelings about being required to hate Sarah Palin simply because she is a conservative. Of course she doesnt put it quit that plainly but youll see what I mean. She looks within herself and asks why she can't try to further the rights of all women not just the traditional hairy armpit crowd. But at the last second she pulls back and faithfully regurgitates the standard feminist talking points. It is absolutely fascinating.

Salon Article

(my apologies if it has already been posted. I looked and did not see it)

[MrsSmith]

In this strange new pro-woman tableau, feminism -- a word that is being used all over the country with regard to Palin's potential power -- means voting for someone who would limit reproductive control, access to healthcare and funding for places like Covenant House Alaska, an organization that helps unwed teen mothers. It means cheering someone who allowed women to be charged for their rape kits while she was mayor of Wasilla, who supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution, who has inquired locally about the possibility of using her position to ban children's books from the public library, who does not support the teaching of sex education.

I guess she didn't bother to check any "facts."  Big shock...

There I go again with the hyper-feminized anxieties. I think it's mostly that I want Hillary Clinton -- the imperfect history maker whose major selling points for "First Woman..." status, in retrospect, included the fact that she was not a Republican, not pro-life, did not believe in teaching creationism alongside evolution, had never inquired about the feasibility of banning books, understood the American economy, supported universal healthcare and did not kill wolves from planes -- to make Sarah Palin go away and stop threatening to make history I don't want to see made.

Hillary's First Woman status is pretty thin, especially when compared to someone who is actually competant.

It would seem that "feminism" is pretty narrow.  Evidently, it can't possibly contain a woman who does not murder kids, loves her long-term husband, and has a real brain.   

Thanks for posting that, Halo.  It's fun to see the hamsters run around the little wheel, trying to cope with their own prejudice.

[DarkHalo]

Thanks for posting that, Halo.  It's fun to see the hamsters run around the little wheel, trying to cope with their own prejudice.

Thats the word I was looking for but couldnt think of when I posted it...

"prejudices"

They are totally incapable of stepping out of that small little universe of political correctness the Dem party has set aside for their good 'lil 'feminists'. As long as the women stay on the liberal reservation all is well. If they choose to think for themselves...well, we can see what they do when someone dares to do that.

[MrsSmith]

I found an article that explains the hatred in a way that makes sense to me...
Why They Hate Her
Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left.
by Jeffrey Bell

Though earlier versions of feminism tended to embrace children and elevate motherhood, the more adversarial feminism that gained a mass base in virtually every affluent democracy beginning in the 1970s preached that children and childbearing were the central instrumentality of men's subjugation of women. This more than anything else in the menu of the post-socialist left raised toward cultural consensus a vision in which the monogamous family was what prevented humanity from achieving a Rousseau-like "natural" state of freedom from all laws and all bonds of mutual obligation.

If this analysis is correct, the single most important narrative holding the left together in today's politics and culture is the one offered--often with little or no dissent--by adversarial feminism. The premise of this narrative is that for women to achieve dignity and self-fulfillment in modern society, they must distance themselves, not necessarily from men or marriage or childbearing, but from the kind of marriage in which a mother's temptation to be with and enjoy several children becomes a synonym for holding women back and cheating them out of professional success.

[DarkHalo]

The more frantic, scared, hateful and desperate the left becomes the more power Palin, and McCain by association, will amass. The libs just never do get it that most people are put off by their vile slash and burn tactics.

Life long Dem voters look at places like DU and Daily Kos and are offended. I know this from personal experience after showing those sites to Dem co-workers, friends and family. Now that doesnt mean they will vote for McCain but if they stay home it is pretty much the same thing. And I think a lot of them will if the Dems keep up the drumbeat of hate towards Palin.

That was a good read MrsSmith, thanks!