Feminism means destroying beautiful women! Don't deny it! via waltzing ghost @ flickr
Really, ladies. What is wrong with you? Why can’t you just accept that Sarah Palin is beautiful? And why must you hate her on the basis of that?
You must be jealous. You are secretly ashamed of your hairy-legged, non-Neiman-Marcus-wearing self. There is no good reason to dislike the Good Governor. She is a bastion of sanity in an insane world. Don’t take my word for it! Listen to Joan Swirsky of Canada Free Press. She wrote an article that totally explains why liberal, pro-choice, feminist women like myself have based their anti-Palin sentiments solely on irrational envy and the sad, painful knowledge that we are inferior to the pitbull with lipstick.
Swirsky maintains that the bashing of Bristol Palin reflects the left’s “fear” of Sarah Palin. And gosh darnit, she’s right! According to Ruth King, whom Swirsky quotes, I hate Palin because
she has actually achieved all [liberal women's] aspirations. She is successful; she is beautiful; she is a governor; she has taken on the old boys; she has gained national stature; she has clout; she has a son in the military; she has a husband who is a hunk who is also happy to help his wife’s career, and she has four other kids and a great family life, along with its attendant problems.
Holy run-on sentence, Batman!
But Ruth King is right. It’s not fair! All I ever wanted out of life was to be beautiful and have a son in the military and (most of all) a hunky husband! Really, my worth as a woman, and a liberal one at that, is solely measured in how many Republican dittoheads think I’m beautiful. Oh, and I wasted my life on being a feminist! It prevented me from accomplishing anything!
She was begging feminists with fancy credentials who had never accomplished anything to hate her, and they did.
My credentials crumble in the face of Palin’s accomplishments. I suppose I will now have to turn in my gold medal earned studying Latin in the 10th grade. Indeed, I have accomplished nothing, my life is wasted, and my shriveled mind and barren uterus and un-lipsticked face cower before the brilliance that is Sarah Palin.
At this point, Palin has gone back to Alaska. And this is really not about Palin anymore. It’s about the fact that she is the perfect symbol for the far right to hold up as a counterpoint to feminism. The right is far more bitter about Palin than I could ever be. She is not Vice President, she did not deliver McCain to the Oval Office, and she is no longer popping up in interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric.
But it is so much easier to fault those nefarious liberal feminists for resenting Palin than it is to recognize that more than 50% of American voters (including non-liberals, non-feminists, and a hell of a lot of men) did not vote for her ticket.
My own feelings towards Palin have nothing to do with her makeup or hairstyle or fancy suits. They have to do with actual issues. I have no shame in saying that I’m not as conventionally “attractive” as Sarah Palin. That’s not quite the reason why I have more admiration for the incidentally pantsuit-wearing, complicated-marriage-possessing Hillary Clinton than the oh-so-beautiful (at least as per Joan Swirsky) Sarah Palin.
So really, don’t hate Sarah Palin because she’s beautiful and married. Because we shriveled, shrewish feminists can never hope to achieve such things. Let’s just crawl back into our caves and weep silently, and accept that we are inferior women who have been deluded by feminism into thinking we are actually important.
Feminism: This word does not mean what they think it means.
she has actually achieved all [liberal women's] aspirations. She is successful; she is beautiful; she is a governor; she has taken on the old boys; she has gained national stature; she has clout; she has a son in the military; she has a husband who is a hunk who is also happy to help his wife’s career, and she has four other kids and a great family life, along with its attendant problems.
Yeah, I wish I had a great family life (i.e. lots of kids) along with attendant problems (Bristol’s ex). Then I’d just need to wait for the establishment to come calling, shove some talking points into my hand and *bam* Tina Fey’s impersonating me on live TV.
That last one sort of is a real aspiration.
O, Canada. I forgot that you have (a few) conservatives, too.
Sarah Palin’s success does not diminish my own. I don’t want the life she has; she probably would not want my happy successful life either. To each her own.
Since when is a woman’s success measured by how many women are jealous of her?
@Kivrin: Indeed, as evidenced by the fact that Bush’s first post-Presidency speech will be given there.
@Becky: Since junior high, of course.
I don’t have Palin-rage because she’s conventionally attractive. I have Palin-rage because she traded on her looks and her ability to reproduce to get votes.
If liberal feminists resent attractive women, why the collective girl-crush on Michelle Obama?
I don’t want to sound arrogant, but I think I’m pretty hot and I still hate Sarah Palin. Because she has backwards views, disastrous policy proposals where she even dares to make policy proposals, is a hateful fear mongerer, and opposes many of the rights and freedoms I hold dear. Every time she opens her mouth, she embarrasses herself and womanity. I don’t hate her because she’s pretty, I hate her for everything else.
@funnyface: Then you must not be a feminist! Plz to turn in your feminist card at once.
Sarah: I already had to give it back because I didn’t know it was Women’s History Month until yesterday.
But I think you, SarahMC, and I have valid enough reason to hate Palin: she’s giving us Sarahs a bad name.
@kithkin: you can sit at my lunch table anytime.
Also, the all liberal women dream of having a son in the military… is just random. She might as well say all liberal women dream of moose hunting. All liberal women dream of being a grandma at 45 or whatever. All liberal women dream of being exactly like Sarah Palin she is the embodiment of womanity.
@spark: You know what I dreamed of? Graduating in four years from one college. And then going to grad school. And being able to give an interview without embarrassing myself. And actually GOING to Russia instead of just looking at it out the window.
Done and done. Sarah should be jealous of me! Also, I’m way prettier!
@BeckySharper: Actually, it would be pretty cool to see Russia from my window. But I’m sure Alaskans think, “It would be so cool if instead of Russia, I could see the Bronx.” The grass is always greener, you know?
Since I am both super-pretty AND married, it’s still ok if I hate her, right? I’ve even got a hunky husband in the military. Wow, I practically am Sarah Palin. Except for bit where we disagree on every single political issue.
Blondegrlz for president.
@spark: what I always wondered was “if she has seen it from her window her entire life, how come she’s never actually GONE THERE?”
Blondgrlz ’16!
@Spark: As a liberal woman, I am really envious of her, uh…ability to shoot wolves from helicopters. Yeah, that’s it.
Did anybody read that piece of tripe? She says the movie Juno is an example of liberal’s amoral thinking because the character “decided” to have a baby out of wedlock. Um, Ms. Swirsky? The character was a teenager who accidentally got pregnant and decided not to have an abortion. Does this remind you of anyone in real life? No? Carry on then.
@Becky: Didn’t she just get a passport last year? Oh no. I can feel the Palin-rage returning. Don’t do this to me, harpies.
As a liberal woman, I have always dreamed of saying “Thanks, but no thanks” to a bridge to nowhere.
@Spark: Yes. She went to Kuwait and Germany to visit some troops. That was the sum total of her foreign travel. Actually, W. had never done any foreign travel either, until he became president, except to drink in Tijuana.
@blue_streak: Oh, there was so much in that article to wade through. I thought about dealing with the whole single-mom bit (because comparing Bristol Palin’s accidental pregnancy to Jodie Foster’s planned pregnancies is totally rational!) but this would have turned into a 5,000 word incoherent diatribe.
@Becky: More evidence that she is the female George Bush.
Thanks, Becky! I just may take you up on that sometime–I keep wanting to go to a nyc jez thing, but I’m only on the east coast on vacation these days.
Points at which I LOLed in the article:
“the Left in today’s America is particularly sensitive to – paranoid about is not an exaggeration – anyone they perceive as a threat to their hegemony, or, in plain English, absolute control.”
“As writer Lisa Richards reminds us, “feminists and liberals, who insist they stand for women’s rights, hate Sarah Palin because she has two things on her record they want abolished: Christianity and childbirth.””
“Obama and his acolytes seemed to be echoing another liberal icon’s famous song: How dare this moose-hunting, breast-feeding, happily-married, enormously-popular governor rain on our parade?”
And: breast-feeding? Haven’t we seen a lot lately that would indicate breast-feeding isn’t a red state/blue state thing? Or was that just a way for the writer to talk about Sarah Palin’s breasts?
“You hate her because she’s pretty!” Yah, you keep telling yourself that. This makes me all sorts of cranky.
Sarah Palin might’ve done all those things, but I still don’t like her frameless glasses.
why do they think feminists hate kids and marrage? being a feminist and a wife and mother are not mutually exclusive. I lurv kids. but I would raise them to be intelligent feminists as well, muahahahaha!
once again it all comes down to our looks, sexuality and marital status. women can never hold actual opinions based on the merits of someone’s ideas and actions, it’s all just based on ugly women who can’t get a man jealous of pretty married ladies. i can’t believe anti feminists are still pulling out this tired shit. it’s like they feel THREATENED by the fact that you can be pretty AND married and still hateful.
The only reason I dislike Sarah Palin, in fact the only reason I think of her at all, is because her candidacy made it less likely that Bristol Palin, and McCain’s daughter (her name escapes me), or any other female candidate no matter how qualified will every become President or achieve political success.
If a woman’s career makes her field less accessible to future generations of women instead of more, she is not a feminist, period.
When trying to psychoanalyze feminists, they project their own barometer of a woman’s worth onto us: marriage, children, beauty.
We’re better than that. We hate her because of the bile that comes out of her mouth.
To clarify, according to anti-feminists, feminists reject the things this writer claims we envy. So which is it? They can never get their anti-feminist talking points straight.
actually, i have to say that her life is more like a nightmare to me. i don’t want 12 children, i think the wolves she shoots are better people than she is and her hunky husband gives me the willies. i do feel bad for her kids, though-i have to admit. and i definitely disagree with EVERYTHING she said in any interview or in any speech.
Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!