September 3rd, 2008
Give ‘em hell, Sarah
Gawd. Sarah is a
star.
I disagree with this woman on almost every policy position, but I like her anyway. Actually I think I have a tiny little spirit-crush on her. She’s Annie Get Your Gun, she’s Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, she’s about a half dozen American populist fantasies all rolled into one. Hockey moms and pitbulls. Yeah. Bring it
on, cheeto dicks. **** with me now, flipper.
By the way, did any of you catch that inspiring introduction by noted feminist Rudy Giuliani? I forgot to tell you — I think I died a second death during that speech. When I heard him say, “When did they ever ask a
man that?”, my brain tried to process what was happening but couldn’t. I think it kind of exploded there inside my skull.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on September 3, 2008, 11:27 pm EST 17 Comments » And we thought the woman-hating couldn’t get any worse
You know the argument: the Hillary-haters don’t really hate women; they just hate Hillary. All the sexism and misogyny thrown at Hillary is for her alone, not for all women.
Yeah, right.
The Crucifixion of Sarah Palin is one of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen. After the Trashing of Hillary I thought the misogyny couldn’t get any worse, but goddamn. God.
Damn.
Anglachel is absolutely on fire with
her post on the sexism and classism that is driving the attacks on Sarah Palin:
Aside from Hillary, name me another presidential ticket contender who has been the obsessive focus of such widespread and aggressive verbal violence. These attacks are far in excess of anything necessary to discredit a political rival….
But there do not appear to be any bounds to the indignation, even rage, that this, this, tart from Alaska presumes to be the VP. As with the assaults on Hillary, the squalls of the MSM and the blogosphere are like the infant who can’t make Mommy do what he wants so he is going to wish her dead. The posts and comments on Gov. Palin and her oldest daughter are invasive, trying to tunnel inside of their offending bodies and shred them from within. It is the same rage that Olbermann spewed when he asked for someone to take Hillary into a dark room and murder her. It is not as far from the recent murders of women in Pakistan - shot and buried alive - as we would like to believe. These women sought to control their bodies and their lives and were murdered for it. Bristol Palin is living her incredibly ordinary teenage life and these modern day Dimmesdales have appointed themselves judge, jury and executioner in her case. How dare a 17 year old “girl” **** without our consent! (Or our participation…)
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The media message is coming through loud and clear - white trash women are sluts for us to **** with as we please. They should not aspire to higher than the shanty that houses their (incestuous) family and should know this is not their place to trash. They need to remain breeders and feeders. I mean, how can we associate with these women? They don’t even have Ivy League degrees to make up for their slutitude! If they won’t stay in their place then we will take them out like the trash they are.
Women perceived to be of a lower socio-economic classes, regardless of their color, regardless of their actual status, are treated like trash - cheap, dirty, used, disposable objects undeserving of civil rights and privacy, let alone common decency.
It doesn’t matter that the Republicans were banking on this when they picked Palin. What matters is that the Obama camp — the so-called
liberals, the so-called
progressives — took the bait and delivered. Oh jesus, did they deliver.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on September 3, 2008, 1:39 pm EST 24 Comments »
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