Sarah Palin makes me want to stop paying attention to anything.
DO YOU CALL MAKING WOMEN PAY FOR RAPE KITS supporting women? Are you just making sure that someone keeps an eye on your special place in hell? I mean, there's irony all over the place here, but... i hate everything, especially given this:
I am sick enough of Sarah Palin calling herself a feminist, but now other people? Members of NOW? Sure, feminism is subjective, versatile and dynamic, but I feel like there's some base understanding that you have some larger vision than "I am a woman, and I want to further myself, there are other women out there what really??!? Was that in the newspaper THAT I READ?"
Also, WAAAAH the comment will turn into newspaper? You are running for Vice President of the United States, not Wasilla City Council. You're not some victimized celebrity. You're in a position where you are speaking, PUBLICLY, TO PEOPLE, LOTS OF PEOPLE, AND THE PRESS, WHO GET YOU SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE OUT TO MORE PEOPLE, and you get mad that someone's gonna quote you on something that you weren't sure you were supposed to say in the first place.
Also Madeleine Albright didn't even say that. She said "there is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." You know, maybe supporting plan B, rape kits, comprehensive sex ed...
Oh, Shelly Mandell clarified later, saying that she is a democrat and so therefore disagrees with Palin on "several issues," but knows that Palin supports "equal rights" and "equal pay." Apparently, enough of a reason to give someone a glowing introduction. Although NOW did not officially support the event, a representative calling Ted Kennedy a "good ole boy" for endorsing Barack Obama (who is not a good ole boy) comes to mind.
This makes me really depressed just because I know there's going to be all this easy backlash against feminism that's not even true, and in mixed company I'll have to dodge questions of the basic format of "oh wait didn't you know feminism is stupid now," and as a feminist, I resent this whole mess, and as a feminist, I resent Sarah Palin, and oh I am so mad every time I read anything about the election because she's sprawled all over it.
Also do you think in the near future it will become so popular to hate Palin that people will start to say she's not that bad, even though she won't be any better? Discuss.
