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| Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin |
| 2009-07-06 |
| A very long piece from "reclusive Feminist," a liberal who seems to see things very clearly. ...it has not escaped my attention that many of the things Palin is accused of, falsely, are actually true of Obama. This is a guy who, as a U.S. senator from Illinois, didn't even know which Senate committees he was on or which states bordered his own. (And don't even get me started on Joe "The Talking Donkey" Biden, who thinks FDR was president during the stock market crash and that people watched TV in those days.) I'm not saying Obama's a moron, but he's sure as hell no genius. People say Sarah Palin rambles; excuse me, but have you actually heard Obama speak extemporaneously? As for being a diva, surely we all remember the Possomus sign and the special embroidered pillow on the Obama campaign plane. The fact is, Obama is an intellectually mediocre narcissist with a thin resume who's lost without a teleprompter and whose entire campaign had all the substance and gravity of a Pepsi commercial. Yet people say Sarah Palin is a fluffy bunny diva. So: are we back to Obama after all? Is this a transference thing? Are people subconsciously frustrated by the fact that Obama is an empty suit, and are they transferring that rage to Palin? Go read it all; it's worth your time. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #11 "The bad menz are responsible for all bad things, including making the strong, independent, deep-thinking feminists savage Palin with misogynist slanders because said strong, independent deep-thinking feminists are brainwashed by the Patriarchy, which is made up of bad menz..." I used to think rather a lot of John McCain - but after how he and his staff hung her out to dry, I'm afraid I think considerably less of him. About the most sensible deconstruction I've seen yet... Seriously, the attacks on SP from the old-line feminists were just absolutely insane ... and yest, there is a great deal of transference about it. All the most awful things of which she was accused, over and over and over, and yet one more time again ... they were all debunked, over and over and over, and yet they still kept coming up, more persistent than Freddy Kruger. Here in the heart of flyover America, I didn't talk to a woman after she was picked for VP who didn't think she was a great pick, and an amazing and inspiring person. At a Tea Party planning meeting, when we had a a visit from a guy whose claim to fame was that he had written about Joe the Plumber, the instant he said that he had traveled with the McCain campaign, the first words out of the mouths of the other three women on the committee was "Did you meet Sarah Palin?!" |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-07-06 20:12 |
| #10 red. Don't even try to explain. "mense" is periodic, ahem. The reference to the bad menz is permanent. The bad menz are responsible for all bad things, including making the strong, independent, deep-thinking feminists savage Palin with misogynist slanders because said strong, independent deep-thinking feminists are brainwashed by the Patriarchy, which is made up of bad menz. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-07-06 14:15 |
| #9 What the feminists don't verbalize is that even they consider blacks to outrank them in the grievance list. No matter how bad women had it it was mostly a cake-walk compared to slavery. When it came up to a choice between a woman and a black man there was no comparison (ask Hillary). When the woman was of a different political affiliation they assaulted her for forcing them to confront there own emotions on the issue. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-07-06 13:39 |
| #8 A. Born into noble family. B. Admitted to elite school on basis of ability; expected to renounce humble past and become One Of Us. If you're not an elite, then by what means do you claim the power to govern? You're no more than an ordinary citizen, a beast to be herded really. Moreover, it lessens the accomplishments of the elite, because if anyone can do it, then what was the point of learning the secret handshake? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-07-06 11:14 |
| #7 1. Not elite, and therefore unfit... I have never been able to understand this "elite" business. Who appoints these elites? How do they get elite status? Seems like they self-designate, and then all the other wanna-be elites stand around and say...yeah, right on. These people are mentally ill. |
| Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686 2009-07-06 11:05 |
| #6 Yup. She's: 1. Not elite, and therefore unfit to lead anyone in a democracy. 2. Fertile, which threatens sterile feminists. 3. Has a handsome husband, which also threatens them. 4. It's all projection of unacceptable thoughts onto the "other". A great piece, it's heartening to see liberals sit up and say, "hey, maybe it's not a good idea to call Palin a cunt." Only a few of them, but it's a start. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-07-06 10:32 |
| #5 Mense. Look it up. Don't make me explain. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-07-06 10:22 |
| #4 red. It's spelled exactly right, if you read any femblogs. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-07-06 10:04 |
| #3 I believe you spelled "menz" wrong if you are trying to explain women and vicious, Richard. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-07-06 09:22 |
| #2 Very excellent post. I loved the term ..."Godbag." “A godbag is a bag full of hate and self-loathing wearing stage makeup that makes it look like a televangelist.” |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-06 08:22 |
| #1 It's one thing to get all this PDS--including knowing lies--from dems and libs. It's another, according to the reclusive feminist, to have them coming down drenched in boiling acid from feminists. The post and the comments explore the possible reasons. Can't say they're all right. The patriarchy is blamed without consideration for all the men who voted for and otherwise support Palin. But it's the bad menz who made the women so vicious. Figures. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-07-06 08:22 |