Video Update
Here are some links I've come across in the last day or so and been moved by (in one way or another).
Link #1: This one made me cry. It's just, well, awesome. The daughter of a former slave, a woman who is over 100 years old, votes for Barack Obama. Of course I'm happy every time I hear about anyone voting for Barack Obama, but it's so incredible to think about the changes this woman has seen in her lifetime and the kind of progress that has had to occur to allow her to vote (both as an African American and a woman) and to allow her to vote for an African American presidential candidate.
Link #2: This one made me cry, too. It's another voting story, this one about a woman who "uses last moments in life to vote." It's too easy for most of us to take voting for granted (either because it's easy for us to do or because of the problems inherent in the system) but this is a moving reminder of what voting can mean to us as individuals.
Link #3: Obama/McCain Dance-Off
This one almost made me laugh, but then it really pissed me off. Watching fake Obama and fake McCain dance is amusing, but when fake Sarah Palin enters the video it becomes not just silly but sexist. Of course her style of dancing is more sexual, which I had a problem with, but the real problem comes when she walks out of the room and both fake Obama and fake McCain make sexual comments about her, McCain even saying, "I would tap that, my friend."
I feel like I keep repeating this, but I keep needing to repeat it: as much as I dislike Sarah Palin, there is no reason for her to be consistently reduced to a sex object in the public discourse, whether that sexualization is meant seriously or played for laughs.
Link #1: This one made me cry. It's just, well, awesome. The daughter of a former slave, a woman who is over 100 years old, votes for Barack Obama. Of course I'm happy every time I hear about anyone voting for Barack Obama, but it's so incredible to think about the changes this woman has seen in her lifetime and the kind of progress that has had to occur to allow her to vote (both as an African American and a woman) and to allow her to vote for an African American presidential candidate.
Link #2: This one made me cry, too. It's another voting story, this one about a woman who "uses last moments in life to vote." It's too easy for most of us to take voting for granted (either because it's easy for us to do or because of the problems inherent in the system) but this is a moving reminder of what voting can mean to us as individuals.
Link #3: Obama/McCain Dance-Off
Click to viewThis one almost made me laugh, but then it really pissed me off. Watching fake Obama and fake McCain dance is amusing, but when fake Sarah Palin enters the video it becomes not just silly but sexist. Of course her style of dancing is more sexual, which I had a problem with, but the real problem comes when she walks out of the room and both fake Obama and fake McCain make sexual comments about her, McCain even saying, "I would tap that, my friend."
I feel like I keep repeating this, but I keep needing to repeat it: as much as I dislike Sarah Palin, there is no reason for her to be consistently reduced to a sex object in the public discourse, whether that sexualization is meant seriously or played for laughs.