A brief note on Sarah Palin
There are plenty of reasons that women shouldn’t get behind Sarah Palin just because she’s got two X chromosomes, including her adamantly anti-choice stance on women’s rights to make decisions for themselves. Personally, I think that Palin was chosen cynically – to potentially appeal to the radical right Christian conservatives and to disenchanted (sigh, so sick of that meme) Hillary supporters.
All that said, I’m already seeing the sexism that encountered Clinton rearing its ugly, ugly head in discussions of Palin. It’s disgusting and unnecessary and none of us should stand for it. Just as we shouldn’t stand for the misogynistic attacks on Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton or any other woman.
That’s it, that’s all I’m saying on this. Have fun this extended weekend and join me at the Liberty Parade if you’re in Minneapolis!
I was just reading comments on a silly blog post about her (http://tinyurl.com/6rbhnq) and was shocked at how violent and hateful some of them were on day 1 of the announcement (whore, cunt, the usual).
Related to sexist media coverage of and response to candidates, I was just having a conversation the other day about whether Hillary coverage was sexist with a friend of mine and his wife, and he totally did not see it (and he even might call himself a feminist). She said that was true of most men she’d talked to about it and that most women she talked to saw it.
Yeah. Of course, Perez Hilton’s commenters are pretty bottom of the barrel. But the attitude isn’t exclusive to them at all.