Palin, Clinton, and sexism 101

[nontacitare]

All right, boys and girls, gather round and listen up. It is time for me once again to take up my mantle as iconoclastic feminist annoyer in chief and rain on everybody's Palin-is-the-AntiChrist parade. It is truly a sad day when I am forced to defend the Republican vice presidential candidate.

So let's look at the facts, shall we?

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[nontacitare]

Working with national and international issues. Working with Constitutional and other legal issues. Working with interstate issues. Thinking about all those issues.

I agree with that.

He would've even been better off with Carly Fiorina
Eh, I would have brought up the inexperience problem with her.

I don't think anyone is calling *all* criticism of her credible. And yet whenever a particular attack is called into question as sexist, (ie the mother memes, female hairstyle/attire as signs of lack of intelligence, dowdy/fuckable/slutty) the response is almost invariably, "You call all attacks on her sexist just because she's a woman. You're the real sexist. We have credible concerns." I notice on Shakesville that whenever a blogger points out a specific instance of sexism, they are inundated with trolls who try to claim that they're dupes of McCain, even when said blogger has endorsed Obama, and even when said example should be egregiously obvious as out of bounds.

Thank you for the information about Biden. It might be an important part of his story, but the media has not been hammering it as they have Palin's eldest daughter and youngest son.

First Families become pretty famous.
And I have huge ethical problems with this.