Posted on 09/12/2008 12:53:54 PM PDT by fanfan
Salon.com hits a new low, and we still have 8 weeks to go
Published by Rebecca Walberg under Arts and culture, Feminist nonsense, Politics, Sarah Palin
Some of us are delighted that Sarah Palin is leading by example, proving that women can have families and careers, no trade-offs required.
Others see her rather differently: according to Salon.com, normally a rabidly partisan but reasonably civil and thoughtful site, she’s not in fact a woman.
On account of, well, there are too many choice quotes here to pick just one.
Let the classiness of the following wash over you like the slime from a tipped over dumpster, and if you still think there isn’t a culture war, read the whole piece.
Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she’s so hot to cut is that of all American women.
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I did not think that women being downgraded to second-class, three-holed chattel would be a pressing concern in my lifetime. I thought it was like polio, or witch burning — an inhumane error that had already been corrected. But after eight years of Republican hegemony, and now the potential ascendance of this sheep in ewe’s clothing, I am so mortally offended I feel like it is really time for women to be angry, hardcore and disgusted again.
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Relax: The war is God’s plan. (Or whatever.) Women, even if they are vice president, can always look pretty, worship their husbands in the fear of God and never, ever resist invasions from unwanted sperm.
Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
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Nope, I’m still not a feminist, not as long as this frothing monument to vulgarity and hatred is part of that particular club.
I honestly don’t understand what she’s talking about at all, from those excerpts anyway.
Click the link in the story to see the article Rebecca is talking about.
This is from a blog called Pro Women - Pro Life, here in Canada. You can see the blog by clicking the top link.
Salon email?
The libs have really gone mad this time, haven’t they?
The ladies at PW/PL nail the libs with this post.
Salon where the effete meet to bleat
The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.
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But the one fundamental precept that Democrats must stand for is independent thought and speech. When they become baying bloodhounds of rigid dogma, Democrats have committed political suicide.
This is good for another point in the polls.
Thanks for posting that.
Wow. The writer of this tripe is very ill.
Clearly, for this author, the bottom line is abortion. It’s all about the killing.
I would encourage her to read and contemplate upon the recent missive of Camile Paglia. One of Paglia’s points was that the Rats have gotten abortion terribly wrong, not so much in its conclusion (her view, with which I vehemently disagree), but in the reasoning underlying the conclusion.
Paglia said that the Rats will never get anywhere until they “ethically evolve” their pro-abortion stance to the same degree that the pro-life stance is “ethically evolved.”
Moreover, as part of that, women such as this author need to pay attention to Paglia’s observation that destruction of any given pro-life politician will do NOTHING to deter the pro-life movement. They must counter the pro-life movement with ethical reasoning and ideas (which, of course, they cannot); anything less will only continue to rebound against them.
Sorry, I didn’t read far enough into the thread and just posted the same thing about Paglia’s piece!
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