== White women, no way = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Once pro-Obama, but now swoon for McPalin? Who the hell are you?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/19/notes091908.DTL&nl=fix

Every white woman I know is positively horrified.

Wait, that's not exactly true. It's more accurate to say that every thoughtful or liberal or intuitive or open-minded white woman I know worth her vagina monologue and her self-determination and two centuries of nonstop striving for equal rights and sexual freedom and exhaustive patriarchal unshackling is right now openly horrified, appalled at what the addition of shrill PTA hockey-mom Sarah Palin seems to have done for the soggy, comatose McCain campaign -- that is, make it not merely remotely interesting and melodramatic, but aggressively hostile to, well, to all intelligent women everywhere.

Truly, among women in the know and especially among those who fought so hard to bring Hillary Clinton to the brink of history, nausea and a general recoiling appear to be the universal reactions to Palin's sudden presence on the national stage, stemming straight from the idea that there's even a slight chance in hell such an antagonistic, anti-female politico could be within a 72-year-old heartbeat of becoming the most powerful and iconic woman of all time.

They say: You've got to be kidding me. They say: This is what we get? This could be our historic role model? Two hundred years (OK, more like 2000) of struggle, only to have this nasty caricature of femininity try to hijack and mock and undermine it all? ...

[seabeyond]

1. This could be our historic role model? .... slap in face from party that hates women

they say, I say....


"They say: You've got to be kidding me. They say: This is what we get? This could be our historic role model? Two hundred years (OK, more like 2000) of struggle, only to have this nasty caricature of femininity try to hijack and mock and undermine it all? ..."

i am so glad to hear this. this is what i have been saying from moment one when i started to find info on this woman. it is nastily offensive to me as a woman. and she uses feminist. what a friggin insult that she gets away with using the word. her husband sits in the meetings, makes decisions for her. she is an offensive pick to all women

[lamp_shade]

2. Just heard this (This is what we get?) yesterday from an acquaintance...

... a woman, strongly anti-choice, senior citizen... claims to be independent leaning right. She was insulted. Won't commit to voting for Obama, but WILL NOT vote for McCain.