READ THIS: She has as much business on the national political stage as Alice from the Brady Bunch.

[BigBearJohn]

"Sexism" is discrimination or unfairly diminishing someone based on gender. I haven't discriminated against Sarah Palin based on her gender and I haven't diminished her based on it. She's diminished based on her intellect and experience and hubris and because they're using her gender in such a crass and cynical manner. I'm discriminating against her based on that fact and that she has as much business on the national political stage as Alice from the Brady Bunch.

I don't give a damn whether Palin has a penis or a vagina. When I wrote about Hillary Clinton during the primary I didn't comment on her gender. I don't care about her gender. Let me point out that I wrote an entire movie about sexual harassment (North Country -- click on the link over there on the right side of your screen). Don't you get it? I'm not insulting Sarah Palin, SHE IS INSULTING ME.

In the first part of her debut interview, she has let us in to a very small, ignorant and reckless mind. If she is going to tell me that the reason she's qualified to follow up
on her threats of war with Russia and its thousands of nuclear warheads (that's
n-u-c-l-e-a-r, by the way), is because on a clear day she can actually see Russia from her igloo window, then we have every right to take her on in both a serious manner and in the form of boundless ridicule. And, yes, even commenting on her appearance. Frankly, it's all she offers.

Imagine for a moment that McCain had picked the latest winner of The Bachelor as his running mate. Would we be sexist if we commented on her looks? Of course not. Sorry if you don't like it, but in my mind, there's not much that separates Sarah Palin from the attractive yet vapid winner of a reality show. As far as I'm concerned, she IS the attractive yet vapid winner of a reality show.

I'm not required to take her seriously simply because she's a woman and I might offend some people by tearing her down with irony and satire. I'm not required to take her seriously simply because this crotchety old man has insulted all of us, women and men, by smugly assuring us that he is the arbiter of experience and readiness. I'm not required to take her seriously when she actually was chosen, not because of her experience, but because of her appearance.

This is a woman chosen because of her attractiveness, both physically and ideologically, to a particular type of person. That person is not looking for depth. Not remotely. That person is looking for things that are just plain wrong. Not different, wrong. And one of those things is a padlock on your uterus. Now let's talk about sexism.


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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-seitzman/the-definition-of-sexism_b_126072.html?show_comment_id=15659511#comment_15659511

[NYC_SKP]

1. Having a vaginal seems to be her greatest asset...

It was clearly a strategic move, also that her background pleases many evangelicals and those connected to petroleum.

But I mused the other day, in the unlikely and unthinkable case that she succeeds John in the white house, and the end that would come as a result of that,

and my passing thought was this: "Vaginas brought us into this world, and a vagina just might take us out."

Not meant to be offensive, hope nobody finds a problem with it.

[silverojo]

2. Actually, Ann B. Davis is MORE qualified

She used to work helping homeless people...very low-key, didn't make a huge "look at me!" fuss over it. With that kind of hands-on experience, she'd have a far better idea how to combat homelessness and poverty than Sarah Pukebag.

[PCIntern]

6. Ah..the dreaded "Community Organizer! n/t

[pansypoo53219]

3. mcPenis doesn't give a shit about america.

he is willing to do ANYTHING to win and fuck his VP.

[Frank Booth]

4. Alice always bugged me.

She always had that smug, "I'm smarter than everyone else" attitude.

Like that time Bobby got a black eye, and Alice put a cold cut of beef on it. She thought she was hot shit 'cuz she kept the swelling down.

[BigBearJohn]

5. kick for the saturday crowd