Sarah Palin
Jul. 7th, 2009 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumInsomuch as I am not personally acquianted with her, I don't like her.
I don't like her in the same ways I don't like Rudi Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Trent Lott, etc (Dick Cheney and George Bush get a different level sort of dislike, with them it's personal). Which is to say, her policy positions, and public statments on things are strange to the point of incoherence. She preaches hate and practices, "IOKIYAR". All of which are bad, some of which are vile.
But that doesn't justify the things being said about her becuse it's a her.
Her being a woman isn't material. David Letterman was out of line. People who said it was funny, were out of line. Stuff like this: Rachel Sklar: Wow. Sarah Palin. Was it something that Todd Purdum uncovered but didn’t publish? Was it those really tight spandex pants in Runner’s World?
John MacNamara
Because everything I'm now going to write about you in this public forum is a total lie:
Ready?
...You should wear longer skirts because your legs are an embarrassment.
And in the future, the words "quitter," "diva," "crybaby," "psycho," and "Little Miss Pouty Pants" will never be used against you.
I hate your hair, especially when it's kind of down and loose and... y'know.
There were a lot other gibes in there, which were legit, but those... no. They weren't about her actual behavior, they were about her being female.
It seeps into even otherwise straight treatments. Andy Ostroy slips this little corker into his piece. The most famous MILF in America,
What? Would he drop, "Obama, the most famous Young Buck in America?"
I hope not. Yeah, that's over the top. So is reducing a female public figure to a fantasy object for wankers.
That she's a reactionary republican is no reason to abandon treating a woman on her merits, not her plumbing.
We can do better than that. We should do better than that. To do otherwise is to be hypocrites.
I don't like her in the same ways I don't like Rudi Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Trent Lott, etc (Dick Cheney and George Bush get a different level sort of dislike, with them it's personal). Which is to say, her policy positions, and public statments on things are strange to the point of incoherence. She preaches hate and practices, "IOKIYAR". All of which are bad, some of which are vile.
But that doesn't justify the things being said about her becuse it's a her.
Her being a woman isn't material. David Letterman was out of line. People who said it was funny, were out of line. Stuff like this: Rachel Sklar: Wow. Sarah Palin. Was it something that Todd Purdum uncovered but didn’t publish? Was it those really tight spandex pants in Runner’s World?
John MacNamara
Because everything I'm now going to write about you in this public forum is a total lie:
Ready?
...You should wear longer skirts because your legs are an embarrassment.
And in the future, the words "quitter," "diva," "crybaby," "psycho," and "Little Miss Pouty Pants" will never be used against you.
I hate your hair, especially when it's kind of down and loose and... y'know.
There were a lot other gibes in there, which were legit, but those... no. They weren't about her actual behavior, they were about her being female.
It seeps into even otherwise straight treatments. Andy Ostroy slips this little corker into his piece. The most famous MILF in America,
What? Would he drop, "Obama, the most famous Young Buck in America?"
I hope not. Yeah, that's over the top. So is reducing a female public figure to a fantasy object for wankers.
That she's a reactionary republican is no reason to abandon treating a woman on her merits, not her plumbing.
We can do better than that. We should do better than that. To do otherwise is to be hypocrites.
