Must Read: Palin Bashing is Women Bashing
By Hillary Taft - Friday, July 10th, 2009
Excellent article from the Christian Science Monitor on all the Palin bashing…it’s about time I see something like this on Yahoo News. THANK YOU!
Langhorne, Pa. – Let’s call it what it is: sexism in the media. No matter your political stripe, pundits are skewering Sarah Palin. Again. Back in the media spotlight for announcing her resignation as governor July 3, she’s become easy fodder for misogynistic bashing.
During the presidential campaign, the press bombarded her with stereotypes that already plague us as a gender – airhead, stupid, not qualified. And no, the media weren’t picking on her just because she was a former beauty contestant. If Governor Palin was crucified, Hillary Rodham Clinton was slaughtered. Here, a woman of substance, education, and strength was portrayed as weepy, dowdy, and shrewish.
