Am I Imagining Things (I Usually Am, I Admit It)

WhenWeAreQueen ^ | September 16, 2008 | pharmamom

[pharmamom]

Or is Sarah Palin’s nomination as VP bringing out the closet sexists? You know, the way that Obama’s candidacy allegedly is scrubbing off our post-racial veneer and demonstrating our underneath-the-surface hatred of uppity black men. Except, in Palin’s case, I think the chauvinism is genuine. This is honest-to-J,M&J bigotry, up to and including the use of sexual slurs. The Obama campaign has had to stoop to reclassifying almost every adjective in the English language as code for racist besmirchment of their candidate. You’ve heard it: “Flashy” is racist; “elitist” is racist. (And here you had just mastered not ever using the word “articulate” in connection with a black man. Has anyone told Joe Biden that “clean” is racist?)

With Palin, one needn’t use one’s fevered imaginings to infer sexism.

[pharmamom]

There's more, but I couldn't publish the things I have heard on FR, ya'all are too nice.

[silverleaf]

The reaction by the feminazis to Sarah Palin shows that the little girls of the 50’s and 60’s talked a good game when MS Gloria Steinem went public, but despite all the bravado and “Sex in the City” fantasies, these women never really internalized an inner self esteem that rejected sexist stereotypes. It also showed that oh-so-liberal men never REALLY accepted the NOW line at all, and feel quite free and even relieved to join in the blood sport of sexist bashing when given the green light by their female contemporaries.

The old self limiting and self scorning stereotypes even managed to infuse women born in the 70’s and 80’s.

I think we are right back at 1960.

[TheShaz]

Hell yeah!

Palin is a babe!

Opp, was that the wrong comment?

[JudgeFelon]

Keeping up with polls would indicate the sexism or whatever “ism” would be from the ladies. McCain seems to be getting more white men with her than women.

[peeps36]

I think the hate has less to do with sexism and more to do with liberals hating a strong conservative woman. Sarah might become the person that American women model themselves after and that has the man hating witches real nervous. She exposes women like Rotund Rosie, Whoop-Nasty and Ho Dowd as the brain dead weaklings they are.