the feminist agenda
Oct. 19th, 2008 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni have read several pieces that order me, as a woman with feminist values, to speak out against sexist or misogynist language used against Sarah Palin.
i disagree. i have held my tongue because i felt that friendship and civility were more valuable than engaging in a likely endless argument. but i'm really done here.
the language that has been used about her is remarkably similar to the language used about Dan Quayle, and i see no reason to treat her as anything other than a public figure, someone who happens to be under-informed and inexperienced, inept under pressure, and who holds policy positions that i consider to be odious.
i believe that she is anti-feminist. i will not offer her any support or protection because of mere biology. i certainly will not offer support or protection because of my feminist ideology.
“As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased,” McCain said, calling Palin “a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America” and asserting “she’s the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America.”
still hurt about Hillary? Palin is not going to kiss it better.
any woman who believes that electing McCain-Palin is in their best interest, or even a "lesser evil" than Obama-Biden is a fool.
maybe saying this is an unfriending offense. that's unfortunate.
i disagree. i have held my tongue because i felt that friendship and civility were more valuable than engaging in a likely endless argument. but i'm really done here.
the language that has been used about her is remarkably similar to the language used about Dan Quayle, and i see no reason to treat her as anything other than a public figure, someone who happens to be under-informed and inexperienced, inept under pressure, and who holds policy positions that i consider to be odious.
i believe that she is anti-feminist. i will not offer her any support or protection because of mere biology. i certainly will not offer support or protection because of my feminist ideology.
“As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased,” McCain said, calling Palin “a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America” and asserting “she’s the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America.”
still hurt about Hillary? Palin is not going to kiss it better.
any woman who believes that electing McCain-Palin is in their best interest, or even a "lesser evil" than Obama-Biden is a fool.
maybe saying this is an unfriending offense. that's unfortunate.
