Posted on 02/14/2011 7:42:57 AM PST by pissant
I applaud Sarah Palin’s passion, her adroit sense of humor, and her you-go-girl! gumption. But the more I learn about Sarah Palin, the more I become perplexed by her over-heated gender-bending rhetoric.
I believe we can all agree that men and women should have equal opportunities. But let’s not confuse equal opportunities with identical outcomes. Just because a woman has the same right to an education and a decent job doesn’t mean she will pursue the identical career path, toil as long, or work as many years as a man.
Men and women have differing proclivities and interests — most Americans understand this fact. But then there is the small band of disaffected feminists who adamantly insist any and all social differences are the product of gender discrimination.
So where does the former vice-presidential candidate stand on all of this?
Let’s take the gender wage gap. Dozens of studies show that when the relevant factors are taken into account — training, experience, hours worked, and so forth — any salary difference is smaller than a twinkle in Nancy Pelosi’s eye.
But during the 2008 presidential campaign, Palin used the myth to skewer her Democratic opponent. Ignoring the fact that most of the top-level staffers in Obama’s former Senate office were male, she made this charge: “Out on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work, but according to the Senate payroll records, women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get.”
Ratcheting up women’s sense of resentment, Palin then asked, “Does he think that the women aren’t working as hard? Does he think they are 17% less productive?”
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I call BS on this. Her intellect is just fine, and she made the best of a bad situation (re: "illegitimacy, casual sex and single parenthood").
Show me where she "champions" those. Source it please.
At least someone who does not have a 95% Name Recognition rating nation wide, with a 22% favorability rating. It would also be a good thing if that person had close to 20 years of successful experience in government. (Similar to what Reagan had.)
If you're talking about Sarah Palin, you are off your rocker.
We’re all for ‘equal pay for equal work’. (well, you may not be)
She was pointing out Obama’s hypocrisy. She was taking that old leftist slogan the feminists have used against conservatives for years and beating Obama over the head with it.
She’ll do that...it infuriates the left and apparently confuses ignoramuses on the right. Luckily they are a tiny minority, although it’s weird how many of them show up on this forum, known by the owner as a pro-Palin site.
I guess it’s just more evidence of their ignorance. Hey, you’ve convinced me!
Here is Carey Roberts and his picture -
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roberts
I don't like "conservatives" that spout that drivel either. Only thing I know that Palin has done that fits your list is pimp the GW drivel during McCain's campaign. Probably told to do so by her handlers.
Wonder how she feels about it now?
For reasons best known to long dead people who couldn’t do math, the retirement age for men in the United Kingdom used to be set at 65 and women retired at 60. After WW2 the majority of working men tended to retire as late as possible, being rather knackered when they did retire, and they had a tendency to croak before their mid-seventies... while their wives were routinely living well into their eighties and moaning they were still useful and why on earth were they expected to retire earlier than their husbands.
My parents’ next door neighbor was clearing more in a month in pension payments, than I earn in a month, for the last fifteen years of her life. Only 20% of that was down to her occupational pension and the state pension in her name, and the rest was in her dead husband’s name. His pension, which he didn’t live long enough to appreciate, started paying out when he was forced to retire at 65... five years after she got her pension and bus pass.
She was still up ladders cleaning her own gutters out at the age of 95, and bemoaning the fact that the private pensions and the state pensions and even her employer had all been throwing money at her to stay home and do some knitting instead of doing something useful with her time.
She once joked, if she lived in a council estate and said she’d been sponging off other people for thirty years, feminists and right wingers would both denounce her as a parasite but if an upper middle class elderly woman does the exact same thing then it’s considered totally normal and totally justified!
The most frequent I hear is that she is stupid, dumb, inexperienced. I quickly tell the attacker about the teleprompter that failed during her big convention speech and she still gave a speech that had the media elites stunned. I tell them that she knows that her state was the next to last state to enter the union and that she knows it was #49 not #56 like Obama might claim.
I then tell them, I would proudly vote for Sarah.
I sometimes kid around that if they don’t support her they are racist against American Indians because she married one, and her kids are part Eskimo. :-)
While I don’t believe Sarah Palin is the Second Coming, I don’t believe anyone else on the horizon is either, and I don’t think we’re well-served to expect anyone to be.
This is a particularly amateurish piece, and I’m surprised the DAILY CALLER would ‘publish’ it, unless its in their blog area where they don’t exercise that kind of editorial control. Instead they put it out there and let people like pissant post it on FR.
Oddly enough, the charge of “sexism” he seems to think is part of Palin’s toolbox, DOES hold water when the blatant sexism at the core of her gender-buddies Nicole Wallace and Peggy Noonan is cited. These are women who’d rather be tied to the powerful males they’ve served than realistically assess the mad talents of one of their own gender, named SP.
And as far as Palin taking part in some inner machinations at NOW, that’s only to the good, if it helped bring that organization a little closer to 21st Century concerns, since NOW ain’t going away anytime soon, so it might as well
‘reform’.
20 years?
You mean like you would on #19?
Hahahahaha.
That’s the first criticism I’ve seen you post that really has any merit.
I didn’t know she was advocating for LOST.
Conformity Uber Alles? Capiche?
even the right-wing pundit army has its airheads.
That wasn’t a prayer.
You really are confused.
pissant’s problems are so deep he needs to seek religious guidance on his own. External help won’t be nearly strong enough to move his black hateful heart.
I’ve counseled him on this. Thanks for you concern.
Sarah could pinch his pointy head off blindfolded.
Leni
She talks about women-empowerment because she is a good example of it,and many people recognize that, and it helps situate her in a truer light than the Left has ever situated their exemplars of it:for that reason it doesn’t bother me at all, though, yes, at first, during the campaign 2 1/2 years ago, when she invoked the name Hillary Clinton and the “glass ceiling”, it was a little bewildering.
What she’s doing is giving back to the Left a small portion of something they may be right about, in exchange for asking for a recognition that normal, everyday women, with or without political ties, have been empowered when they will themselves to be empowered.
By accident or design, her instincts for how to bring people to her, and AWAY from the tired conceits of the Left,
are mind-bogglingly astute , instinctively right, and will only benefit ‘our side’.
An American who can prove he or she is a natural born citizen with an authentic birth certificate, at least 35 years old, and a resident of the USA for at least the last 14 years.
These would all be improvements over what we live with today.
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