rules, rules, rules! October 1, 2008
I’m sick of all these “feminism rules” about how women should treat other women just because they’re women. I was criticized when I supported Obama in the primary, because “It’s time for a woman in the White House”. And now, some women still feel as though they have to practically apologize for not liking Sarah Palin, or for not trusting her to run an entire freaking country based on some shaky credentials and a complete lack of understanding of complex issues; or for that matter, simple issues:
Pancakes or waffles, Mrs. Palin?
Well, this whole breakfast thing comes down to–to our ability to make–to make breakfast a thing that is for everyone that our candidate, the maverick, sees as essential to ending these health care issues that don’t give us a fair shake to get Washington movin’ in the right direction so as to–to get that nutrition we so desperately need in that morning meal that’s just exactly what I’m talkin’ about.
I will not tolerate someone just because that person happens to have the same type of genitalia as me.
An aside: Every time I try to think of a metaphor for what Joe Biden is going to do to her in the debate, I run into the problem of that metaphor (which I’ve used innocuously enough on many an occasion), suddenly taking on a misogynistic tone:
–reduce her to tears
–bitch slap her
–rip her a new one
–give her brain an abortion
See what I mean?
how did ‘rape her’ not make the list?
Oh, I’m sorry, I was counting “abort her brain” as an implied prior brain-rape, but you’re right, it’s Sarah Palin, so rape wouldn’t be an acceptable pre-condition for abortion. Thanks, Mikey!
ouch . . . lol. I would say that Palin did what she needed to do at the debate. She wasn’t stupid (but she did irritate me by using “maverick” all the time to describer her and McCain) but she did not really answer the questions she was asked. Still doesn’t change the fact that I’m voting for Obama but I really want to see how the other debates turn out . . .