When I saw that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate this morning, I was on the elliptical trainer, and my rage propelled me to the most furious workout I've had in a while.
It's always exciting to see women enter the political fray at higher levels. But a lot of feminists out there, are appalled by the cynicism and condescension inherent in this choice. It's as though the McCain camp believes our irrational she-hormones will lead us, like sheep, to pull the lever for any candidate who looks like us--even if she has a strong record, as Palin does, of standing against women's interests.
He hopes to court Hillary Clinton supporters with a woman VP who said on camera that she didn't like Hillary's "whining" about gender issues, a woman with unpopular, far-right positions on reproductive justice issues and LGBT rights. She's a woman who rides high on being a super-mom, but has an environmental record that won't leave the world in good shape for the next generation, her kids' generation.
This last-ditch attempt by the McCain campaign to re-brand its image is in reality, a capitulation to the far right. It assumes that women don't realize the extremism of the Republican platform this year, which opposes abortion even in the cases of rape and incest, and all stem-cell research. In recent weeks, it's been clear that the Republicans are not that into contraception either, contraception, which almost the entire country has used or will use at some point. This is something feminists have been saying for years. The anti-choice movement is not about saving unborn children, but rather about controlling women's sexuality, and subjecting women to second-class citizen status.
It's no rare thing for the right wing to use prominent women to keep the rest of us down. But just because Sarah Palin is a woman doesn't mean she's good for women. And female voters know that.
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Sarah is incredible
I couldn't be more proud of Sarah Palin. She is a former mayor and governor and mom. As women I can't believe how quick we are to destroy eachother. Do I agree with her on every issue?Abso
I am sick of pro-choice
and Governor, and overtly and horribly cruel, as detailed in some other articles on this site. She typifies the woman who has long since given up personal integrity, scruples , and believes the only path to power is via pleasing men at every step of the way, She has played the game, played it ruthlessly actually, but behind the coquetteis
her own.
Flattery being what it is, men tend to buy the surface 'product' and miss the contempt, but
women - republican AND democratic - should KNOW BETTER. I doubt many females have been so
fortunate as to avoid a Palin personalit
particular
same lack of fundamenta
No woman with self-respe
white equivalent of Clarence Thomas - an anti-affir
happened to be black, who replaced Thurgood Marshall, one of the giants of the civil rights era.
I'm here to tell McCain that although I was against Hillary, there is NO denying that Hillary worked LONG and HARD at the 18 MILLION cracks.
Palin CAN'T touch even touch those crack should she be born all over again by standing AGAINST the progress women have made and turning a blind eye to gender inequality because she, in her little universe, hasn't experience
Palin is the ANTITHESIS of CHOICE. It is NOT that Palin is anti abortion, but that she feels that she has the right to take away the choice of women to CHOOSE what is best for THEM, mentally, socially, economical
As I stated before, it is understand
When I look up feminism in the dictionary
What am I missing?
Reproducti
What we are talking about, or what I was talking about, is not how to stop a pregnancy before it starts, but rather what happens after someone is already pregnant.
Some women believe that once a pregnancy has begun, it should be completed, but that doesn't seem like it should disqualify them from the overall aim of feminism.
At the same time, as women DEMANDING we get equal pay for equal work and have fought to and sacrificed to get an education, to have someone like Palin waltz into office with merely a BS degree in journalism and a minor in political science is laughing in the face of EVERY WOMAN that fought to better themselves in hopes of fulfilling the American dream.
What do we tell our daughters then? That it's OK if you don't get an education, it's overrated, look at Palin? Do we tell them to make sure you join a beauty pageant and HOPE she becomes the next VP or president as a result?
McCain has made a mockery of the women's movement. He thinks that his little ad congratula
Secondly, women want to see a person fit for the job on the ticket....
Finally, our country has enormous problems right now, and I am stupified by McCain's political gimmick, as opposed to really thinking about who is best to govern this country. Instead of a maverick, McCain's VP pick makes him look like a loose canon....w
I'm moving on.
I can't help but think that part of the idea is. "ok, women, you want a woman, here is one." Then when she fails to say. "see women can't do the job, they should stay at home."
McCain is setting Gov. Palin up for failure. It is childish on his part and a huge sign he is not ready to be president. He was upset he couldn't have Lieberman as his running mate to he completely disregarde
She is against abortion, and wants more supreme court justices who are conservati
The only thing Palin will do in office is be McCain's obedient lap dog.