"An insult to women ... that we're even talking about her"
Everybody and his grandmother has something to say about Caribou Barbie's 400-page whine-fest, but the one who really nails it is the Rude Pundit:
Now imagine Hillary Clinton in that situation. Do you think for a second that she would have allowed herself to be forced away if she had wanted to answer a question? Feminism is about agency - that is, the ability to act on one's own. In that moment, as in so many others, Palin didn't assert her agency. Now she claims she finally is. It's a bullshit conversion to a depoliticized feminism, and she reflects, about as clearly as anyone, the kind of feminism-lite that passes for liberation. It's reaping the benefits of the feminist movement without giving a shit about the actual goals of the movement.
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Of course, the absurd reality is that Hillary Clinton has worked her ass off endlessly for her country; agree or disagree with her or her goals, she has sure as fuck had a lot more on her mind than how funny it would be to make reporters walk in muck (as Palin delightfully recounts). Sarah Palin wouldn't know a policy debate if it tweaked her tits and called itself Jesus. She invokes Clinton in order to try to make some of Clinton's accomplished glow rub off on her through a confusing conflation. It's sort of like when people try to say that Michael Moore is the liberal Ann Coulter. It discredits Moore while legitimizing Coulter.
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She is worse than a joke. She is a disgrace. If she is the end result of the work of Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan and so many other women, who were attacked with the language of violence and rape by politicians and the mainstream media (not from some asshole bloggers) that makes Palin's little buffeting about gentle, then that work needs to kick back into high gear. And now she's out there as if she's standing up for women's rights to...speak, one supposes, as long as the lines are the in a general framework of what the right wants her to say.
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It's a goddamned insult to women, to the American political system, to the media that we're still even talking about her.
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2 comments:
It always worries me when I'm compelled to agree with David Brooks, but I have to agree with him when he says, as he did some time in the past few days, that Palin is a joke, and not to be taken seriously. For surely, he as a conservative pundit should know. Da bitch is so close to worthless as a woman, as a politician, and indeed as a person. And her book, from which I have forced myself to read excerpts if not the whole thing, proves it. That's all I have to say.
Whine-fest is an awfully well-chosen term, YD.
The only legitimate recourse to Sarah Palin's public personna is to ignore 'da bitch' [thanks Rich].
It would be socially and politically inappropriate to muzzle her. But to ignore her ... let fox and the rabid-rite-weng & reactionaries gaggle about and insulate their mutual admiration machine from reality is karma protected.
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