More Palin Hatin’ – Progressive Women Take Part
By Hillary Taft - Sunday, October 12th, 2008
You have to wonder why the mainstream media is picking apart every possible “racist innuendo” from the McCain campaign, while ignoring the outright sexism and sheer hatred towards Sarah Palin coming from our friends over on the far far left. So if McCain calls Obama “that one” in a debate, that’s supposedly racist, but if childish college students wear t-shirts with SARAH PALIN IS A C*NT emblazoned on them, that gets a pass? Or a drawing on a blog with Palin being punched out is OK? (Never mind the recent firebombing of a McCain sign in Oregon.)
And these protestors actually think they are about peace and justice?
Here’s what I don’t get. WHY ARE ANTI-WAR RADICALS PROTESTING PALIN?
Palin didn’t start the Iraq War. Bush did. Palin was off in Alaska taking care of Wasilla, not voting to increase spending on the Iraq War like Obama did, or voting for the war in the first place like Joe Biden did. (I guess it’s OK that Biden voted for it now that he’s Obama’s running mate even though Hillary was skewered on it.)
What’s the saddest in all of this is that young impressionable women are buying into this anti-Palin propaganda and hatred. Why? In the 60s, the radical anti-war movement was largely run by men and it was incredibly sexist. “Free love” wasn’t really pro-female, when it came right down to it.
If you actually had gone to a good women’s studies class, you would know that the feminist movement came out of the 60s counterculture movement precisely because women in the movement realized that the left did not care about them. They saw that leftist men were treating them terribly, they got angry, and that’s when the bras starting burning.
Young progressive women today are completely oblivious to the fact that sexism in the left is alive and strong. But, wanting to please their men, and being held hostage by Roe v. Wade, they are complicit in the sexist character destruction of Sarah Palin, a woman they ought to be looking up to.
Perhaps history will repeat itself, and when these idealistic young women realize that leftist men don’t give a crap about their issues, they’ll be forced start a new feminist movement. Maybe then they will wake up and realize what horrible damage they have done to women with their Palin bashing.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I gotta say, I’ve not taken a particular interest in sexism until I started reading your blog and I think the reason I never noticed is not only because I’ve never been a blatant victim, but also because the form of it now days is SO different than the form of sexism we learned about in our history books. This isn’t women labeled as bare-foot and pregnant in the home doing “womens work” type of sexism; this proves it with the comments of how she is a bad mother for not being there 100% for her infant, this is calling her names reserved especially for women BY women. And Sandra Bernard did that “comedy” routine expressing how she hopes Palin is gang raped. This is Campbell Brown perverting the meaning of sexism by saying that Palin doing a private interview is oppressive and sexist by the McCain campaign all the while her Messiah Lord Barack Obama is paying women less per dollar than the men on his campaign. This sexism is not about men bringing women down, it’s women bring women down.
Something is wrong here…
October 14th, 2008 at 6:15 am
when these idealistic young women realize that leftist men don’t give a crap about their issues
I don’t think one can realliy generalize by gender in that way. Plenty of men believe in female equality, supported Hillary, became PUMAs, and have been appalled at the misogyny aimed at Hillary and at Palin. And plenty of women, not all of them young or naive, have been participants in that campaign of misogyny. Gender is a surprisingly poor predictor of attitudes either way.