Thoughts on Sarah Palin

[draconic_rogue]

I read a rant recently written by some idiot feminist going off on women who hate Palin. She wrote that any woman who could say she hates Palin is anti-feminist and that it's one thing to say you hate Palin's politics but to go after Palin personally makes you sexist. Unfortunately, I was so irritated with the poster that I didn't bother to save

Comments

[littlefrog29]

Hah. Some people are idiots. The US election has got loooooooads of coverage here and I've (disgustingly often) seen the opinion ' if you don't vote for Palin you're sexist and anti-women' and it just makes me go BUZZAH WHUT? Because that's the most uninformed, horribly sexist statement I've ever heard.

Why don't people understand that voting for her because she's a woman and disregarding her politics is just as bad as not voting for her because she's a woman?

[draconic_rogue]

I think a person who would vote for gender or skin color or religion over issues and what's best for the people of the country are the worst kind of people. There are so many important issues to vote on and there is such a divide on how the candidates look at them that to vote based on anything else is petty. And honestly, what does a person's gender mean? Does her being a woman make her any more or less qualified than the men? No. What makes her unqualified for this position is her lack of experience and knowledge. Every time she opens her mouth she says something stupid. Her politics are mindblowing backwards but anyone who calls her out on that is labelled sexist. It's appalling.

I can't imagine how anyone can listen to this woman or hear what she stands for and find her an adequate candidate for the vice presidency. Even more, I can't understand how any self-respecting woman can listen to her politics and think that this woman gives half a damn about women's equality and would want her to represent women.

[littlefrog29]

I agree with you 100%, based on what I know, but tbh I would also loose respect if there was female candidate whose sole focus was on female equality and never talked about anything else and therefore played off their sex to promote themselves. Female equality is an important issue, certainly, but it is one of many and I want to know the candidates' policy on each and every single issue, without giving a shit about their sex, their race, their religion etc etc. This is their JOB, and how they go about it and what they promise to achieve is the only thing that interests me. My mind boggles at any other attitude.

[draconic_rogue]

Exactly!

It's almost funny how she really doesn't have her own opinions on any of the issues too. She's admitted that she really doesn't pay attention and had so much of it drilled into her that you have to wonder if there's a little rip cord somewhere to pull and make her talk.

[gryffinclaw]

She is an embarrassment to women. I honestly just lose respect for anyone who supports her.

[draconic_rogue]

You and me both, Sam.

I usually try to be fairly tolerant of other people's politics (or at the very least keep my mouth shut about them) but this is something that I just can't get my head around. Anyone who thinks she's worthy of a position like this isn't worthy of my respect.

[jackie]

Agreed wholeheartedly. And that makes me very sad. D:

[hatter23]

It is funny, I may have voted for the John McCain of ten years ago. But no, not ever with this Running Mate. I loathe her in a way the brussel sprout would be jealous of.

[draconic_rogue]

It's currently f-locked but I will unlock it so you can. :)

[booksbagsshoes]

The thing that really struck me during all of the commentary before and after her debate with Biden was how often it was said that "he can't be seen to be attacking her too much because she's a woman so it could be construed as sexism". I think that's sad; in this situation she's a politician, first and foremost - why should she get protection that no other candidate would get just because she has breasts? If she's qualified to do the job she'll be able to answer any question you throw at her - if she's not, then she shouldn't be up for the job. It makes me wish Obama had chosen Clinton as his running mate because then we wouldn't have to listen to that sort of excuse.

[draconic_rogue]

That's something I don't understand either. Obvious sexism is one thing but expecting special treatment just because you're a woman is just as sexist, imo

[booksbagsshoes]

I have to say I don't really know much about Biden at all, he's hardly getting any coverage over here compared to Palin. And I suspect you're right about what would have happened if she had faced off against Clinton. Clinton was often painted that way even before she ran for the nomination.

Perhaps I just find the concept of a politician trading on her gender incredibly alien because I'm a child of the Thatcher years. Growing up it wasn't a big deal that the PM happened to be a woman; what mattered was the policies that she and her party implemented.

[draconic_rogue]

It's kind of funny, and not in a ha-ha way, how behind the times America tends to be on things or just how much our culture tends to gravitate towards the superficial.

I don't think that her being a woman means she needs any kind of special treatment. She's already proven she can handle herself enough to be a mayor and a governor, so we all know she at the very least has enough to her to get there. And if she's being picked as a VP candidate you should be able to assume that she has enough backbone to stand up without special treatment. She won't get that kind of regard when it comes to world politics, so why give it to her now? It comes off to me that she can't handle herself.

[draconic_rogue]

Thank goodness for that! One Palin is more than enough!