They’re going to “finish the job” in order to slap us all down HARD.
So that we don’t get up again.

We have to escalate our efforts on her behalf. We have to fight her attackers as if they were our own – because they are.
They still see Palin as emblematic of our struggle – so we must continue to embrace her as such.
Lets get medieval on their asses.

Women defending women: its a new age(nda)

Oh yes, some people — men AND women — do have a problem with strong, capable women who know how to lead and govern, but that’s not what’s going on here with Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin.

I think the problem here in America is that it is FASHIONABLE to disparage the accomplishments of political women and to disrespect their achievements.

People tune in to the TV talk shows and TV “comedians” and think they have permission to join in on the bashing and trashing of women they see on TV. Ridiculing women is a habit, a tradition, a pastime.

Women took one look at Sarah Palin’s hair and decided she “had” to be “dumb.” She was too sexy and beautiful to be smart. Those same women did not bother to do ANY research into Palin’s record as mayor and, now, governor. She has an outstanding record as governor — a record of accomplishment and reform most of us would welcome in our own states.

Arnold Schwarzenegger had no political experience when California, with its many problems and challenges, elected him to be governor. Californians even re-elected him a year or two later. California is now in huge financial trouble and looking to the federal government for financial help, but I guarantee you that if Arnold were a natural-born citizen the same people who ridicule Sarah Palin would be drooling in support of Arnold for president.

Why do you suppose this is? Arnold has proven his incompetence and Sarah Palin has proven her competence.

Joe Biden has almost permanent foot-in-mouth trouble, has had two brain aneurysms, garnered almost NO support for his presidential run in the primaries, has been wrong about the last 15 international crisis issues, and voted WRONG (according to Barack Obama) on the Iraq war resolution — yet, the media goons are applauding Biden’s elevation to the vice-presidency, and he is first in line to be president.

Why do you suppose this is?

People point to Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson as “proof” she is not informed, but they forget how badly Obama did in his early interviews and how deer-in-the-headlights he appeared at the early Democratic debates. Media people were shaking their heads in stunned disbelief after Obama’s poor performance in those early debates and speculating that maybe Joe Biden was right that Obama was NOT READY for the big time yet.

I would also point out that what most people saw of those two early Palin TV interviews were the heavily EDITED and CUT versions, and they had been cut is a way that left out key parts and made Palin look as bad as the editors could make her.

Well, as I said up top, I think misogyny is the WRONG word here; I think what we are dealing with here is obliviousness: people are oblivious to the harm they do by disrespecting women and trivializing their achievements. I do NOT believe this disrespect is attributable to hatred of women but to habit.

Mocking women is a national pastime in America culture. Disparaging women’s accomplishments is a sick, sick American habit.

It is a habit that we must think about and then re-think.

It is time to measure women’s achievements with factual “yardsticks” — and it is time to CHANGE OUR WAYS of looking at women.

It is time — past time — to kick the habit of humiliating and disparaging women.

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“SHADOW” now . . . and “SHADOW” forever!

“Stop Humiliation And Disparagement Of Women”

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lightacandle – Your statement is worth repeating, so I am reposting: . . . it is high time we accused the people who insult and disparage women of committing the “high-tech lynching (or rape) of women.”

So it has been with the humiliation, degradation, disparagement, distortions, lies and the disgusting jokes about Senator Hillary Clinton and Gov. Sarah Palin.

All of this activity was NOT just about destroying Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin– it was a warning shot across the bow to any other women who thought they might make a try for either of the two highest public offices in America: “You run, and we’ll destroy you.”

I think both Clinton and Palin were remarkable for their grit and fortitude; they kept on going when others might have wilted.

If Obama had been treated to the disgusting treatment inflicted on these two women, he (of the thin skin) would have melted in a pool of self-pity. Instead, even though Obama was treated like he was already The Emperor, he fired back at any criticism accusing the critic of being a “racist.” That silenced most people because most people, by now, are ashamed of being racist or even of being thought to be racist.

But, it is still okay and even admired in some circles to trash and bash women political figures.

Back when Clarence Thomas was being interviewed by the senate judiciary committee, as he sought appointment t to the U.S. Supreme Court, Thomas finally ended what he felt was his “torment” by claiming the questioning was the “high-tech lynching of a black man.” It actually wasn’t at all, and he had been treated far more courteously than Joe Biden (the committee chairman) had treated Anita Hill who, as Clarence Thomas’s principal accuser, had testified under oath that Thomas had sexually harassed her when he was her supervisor.

But the point I make here is that it is high time we accused the people who insult and disparage women of committing the “high-tech lynching (or rape) of women.”

We have to fight this bias against women with all our strength and creativity, because the ugly Americans have just enjoyed open season on two highly accomplished women; and no woman will soon run for high public office unless we level the playing field and end the humiliation and disparagement of women.

“SHADOW” now . . . and “SHADOW” forever!

“Stop Humiliation And Disparagement Of Women”