this essay hits the nail on the head. "They say: You've got to be kidding me. They say: This is what we get? This could be our historic role model? Two hundred years (OK, more like 2000) of struggle, only to have this nasty caricature of femininity try to hijack and mock and undermine it all?" is exactly how i feel. my dad, who's christian, republican, and awesome, said to me a few weeks ago, "isn't it exciting that on one side, we have a black candidate, and on the other, we have a woman?"
i was like..."dad, either way it's going to be a historical election, but palin is a fluke. she didn't fight to be where she is. i'd rather have a dedicated man for a VP than a woman who's so clearly nothing but a pawn, and a pawn with really backwards politics at that."
"Wait, that's not exactly true. It's more accurate to say that every thoughtful or liberal or intuitive or open-minded white woman I know worth her vagina monologue and her self-determination and two centuries of nonstop striving for equal rights and sexual freedom and exhaustive patriarchal unshackling
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i was like..."dad, either way it's going to be a historical election, but palin is a fluke. she didn't fight to be where she is. i'd rather have a dedicated man for a VP than a woman who's so clearly nothing but a pawn, and a pawn with really backwards politics at that."
it makes me so angry.
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