I’ve been mulling over this for a while now. I’ve needed that time to process because, to be quite frank, this disobedient bitch was so incredibly pissed off when McSame announced her nomination to VP that I just about literally foamed at the mouth.
It’s not pretty when I get to feelin’ rabid, but it’s not conducive to articulate communication, either. I had to sit on this one.
First up: Sarah Palin ain’t no damn feminist. She’s not a socialist, either. Why am I conflating those two political philosophies? Because one is defined in one’s public life by one’s policy, ok? For the less than literate, than means you ARE what you DO in the public sphere. You don’t get to lay claim to some label or another merely because it’s clever and politically expedient. I don’t get to call myself a neocon just for shits and giggles simply because I feel like it, yanno? I highly doubt that Dickless Cheney would fail to call ME out if I labeled myself a neocon and started some blog espousing Marxist feminist philosophy, all the while claiming that this was the REAL neocon philosophy. It’s what those of us with an education like to call incongruous, to say the least.
And let’s not forget, she has enjoyed all those advantages necessary to allow her rise to power ON THE BACKS of feminists who FOUGHT and BLED for HER right, and every other woman’s right, to operate in the world as a human being, not some action figure piece of meat.
Palin’s policies are about as anti-feminist as you can get. Plain and simple. If you want some proof, feel free to hit cnn.com, or msnbc.com, or any other damn MSM news outlet online for a laundry list of things she actually DID when she was in power. When she was actually DOING things, yanno, instead of hiring out administration duties to someone else.
So, now that we’ve disposed of this wrongheaded notion that Sarah Wolf Killer Palin is some sort of feminist icon, let’s move on, shall we?
I personally can’t stand the woman’s policy positions. I have no clue on Goddess’ green earth what she’s like as a person so I am just not going to even SPECULATE how I’d feel about her, person to person. Hell, I hear she’s quite charismatic. I might even like to do some shots with her or something. Until the issue of banning books came up, I suppose. Then we’d have to have a good natured bar fight, beat the crap out of each other, then stagger home together, arms around each other’s shoulders through some sodden, half-melted Alaskan winter twilight. But I digress.
I LIKE ballsy women. Except for when said ballsy woman would chain ME down with HER choices.
But I am SICKENED by the “cutesy” action figures, man, and let’s not even get into the VPILF jokes. Disgusting; it’s all just so damn vile. I don’t give a CRAP about her family life, her husband, her kids, or what she cooked for dinner or ordered in. It’s IRRELEVANT. And sexist. Not to mention the fact that there’s something really creepy about dolls made to represent real people. It’s like you’re trying to OWN that person or something, by having a simulacrum of them. Not cool. It’s a way of reducing her. Whether that person is some douchebag rethug frat boy wanking off to the “Sarah Palin Action Figure in a Catholic Schoolgirl Outfit” or some wannabe so-called “progressive” male closet misogynist Dem snickering about it, you’re still reducing her.
Do not reduce this woman. She is a real threat. Not for the reasons that she undoubtedly dreams about, but because she is an incredible conundrum with which the left must deal.
This is the Left’s bad Karma, methinks. They shat all OVER HRC and nobody, and I mean NOBODY called that bullshit for what it was until AFTER it was clear that Obama had won. But they failed to clean their own house and clarify their reasons for wanting B-Rock instead of Hillary in a CIVILIZED way. Instead, they talked about shrill voices, wrinkles, and pantsuits. And now they get the immense pleasure of answering for it in the face of Sarah Barracuda.
Remember, shall we, that the incredible baggage with which HRC was saddled, was a result of YEARS of slander and nonsense slung by the RIGHT, the Karl Roves of the world, and NOT the left. Does anyone here actually remember the Ken Star Witchhunt called Whitewater of the late 90s? Yeah, I thought so.
And the Left got so damn SCARED that they backed themselves into a defensive little pissant corner and sold one of the finest minds of the late 20th-early 21st century right down the river. Not that I’ve heard or seen HERwhine. The lady has class, folks. Major class.
So why am I ranting here on a blog about surviving DV in the face of a crap legal system, about Sarah Palin?
Because we need to get clear on some things, people. We need to get clear about issues surrounding equity and fairness. We need to DEEPLY examine how some women, like Sarah Palin, get the gravy by playing by the Boy’s Rules, while the rest of us get screwed.
Sarah Palin was LUCKY, or better yet, PRIVILEGED. She’s white, middle class, and insulated. She also had the good fortune and/or judgment to marry a man who clearly behaves as a partner and ally. Good for her, I say, in all sincerity.
Some of us, however, are NOT white, middle class, insulated, or lucky. SOME OF US, Many of us, grew up WITHOUT those privileges and as a consequence, ended up with abusive asshole men. And in the process of trying to be “good girls” we did the whole wife/mother thing, then realized one day that Asshole wasn’t going to get a job/was drunk AGAIN/Hit me again/Wants to KILL me and decided it was safer to go than stay.
Sarah Palin, do you hear me?
What I want to know, and what I don’t see this woman evincing, is ANY sort of understanding of circumstances beyond her own. Like I said, she GOT there on OUR backs – so what is she giving back?
Would Sarah Palin come down to Georgia and reform a corrupted court system that gives custody to proven abusers? Or come down to Kentucky like an Alaska blizzard with her talk of reform to make a damned homicidal maniac at least pay child support to his ex?
Sarah Palin, would you fight for me? For my sisters, for my friends?
I don’t think so. She made rape victims pay for their own rape kits while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. I don’t know if this woman even has the heuristic framework POSSIBLE to know what it’s like to be where we are.
How I wish it wasn’t so. Because she’s a bruiser, no doubt. Still, the woman may have balls bigger than Texas, but she ain’t got no heart. And she ain’t got no soul.
May standard is, if a dude would get called an asshole for it, then fair play. If not, then shut the fuck up and go home.
