Say it Sista…
November 25, 2009
by Amy Siskind
|Thanks to Heather for forwarding me a piece from American Thinker titled The Wilding of Sarah Palin.
Although the author, a “recovering liberal” in Berkeley targeted the piece on the mistreatment of Sarah Palin, the piece truly could be about almost any female politician that gains power and rises towards that highest glass ceiling.
Robin of Berkeley (the author) awakened to the sexism inherent in the DNC long before I did. For me, it took the 2008 presidential primary and the DNC’s blatant sexism towards Hillary Clinton – both in action and in silence. I spoke about this in May 2008 at a rally in DC (the speech: “I’m Not Your Sweetie Howard Dean” – named after Obama calling a female reporter “sweetie” and the media turning a blind eye).
Here’s the sad fact: neither political party is without fault here. Both parties attack female politicians – overtly and subtly. It will stop when We the People make it stop. When we demand better from our political parties.
I’m encouraged by the voices – both male and female – speaking out in support of Sarah Palin. I don’t recall too many male voices speaking out on behalf of Hillary. I’m hopeful that this is progress that will continue. We should, after all, expect better for the next generation.
Now without further ado, Robin of Berkley’s The Wilding of Sarah Palin published in The American Thinker:
When I was in college, I read a book that changed my life. It was Susan Brownmiller’s tome, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which explained rape as an act of power instead of just lust. What I found particularly chilling was the chapter on war — how rape is used to terrorize a population and destroy the enemy’s spirit.
While edifying, the book magnified the vulnerability I already felt as a female. Fear of rape became a constant dread, and I sought a solution that would help shield me from danger.
The answer: seek safe harbor within the Democratic Party. I even became an activist for feminist causes, including violence against women. Liberalism would protect me from the big, bad conservatives who wished me harm.
Like for most feminists, it was a no-brainer for me to become a Democrat. Liberal men, not conservatives, were the ones devoted to women’s issues. They marched at my side in support of abortion rights. They were enthusiastic about women succeeding in the workplace.
As time went on, I had many experiences that should have made me rethink my certainty. But I remained nestled in cognitive dissonance — therapy jargon for not wanting to see what I didn’t want to see.
One clue: the miscreants who were brutalizing me didn’t exactly look Reagan-esque. In middle and high schools, they were minority kids enraged about forced busing. On the streets of New York City and Berkeley, they were derelicts and hoodlums.
Another red flag: while liberal men did indeed hold up those picket signs, they didn’t do anything else to protect me. In fact, their social programs enabled bad behavior and bred chaos in urban America. And when I was accosted by thugs, those leftist men were missing in action.
What else should have tipped me off? Perhaps the fact that so many men in ultra-left Berkeley are sleazebags. Rarely a week goes by that I don’t hear stories from my young female clients about middle-aged men preying on them. With the rationale of moral relativism, these creeps feel they can do anything they please.
What finally woke me up were the utterances of “bitch,” “witch,” and “monster” toward Hillary Clinton and her supporters early last year. I was shocked into reality: the trash-talk wasn’t coming from conservatives, but from male and female liberals.
I finally beheld what my eyes had refused to see: that leftists are Mr. and Ms. Misogyny. Neither the males nor the females care a whit about women.
Women are continually sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. If under radical Islam women are enshrouded and stoned and beheaded, so be it.
My other epiphanies: those ponytailed guys were marching for abortion rights not because they cherished women’s reproductive freedom, but to keep women available for free and easy sex.
And the eagerness for women to make good money? If women work hard, leftist men don’t have to.
Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it’s far worse: many are perpetuators.
The Left’s behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.
They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.
The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.
A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she’ll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn’t need or want anything from liberals — not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.
Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.
And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.
Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.
They turn her into a piece of ass.
Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like “slutty flight attendant” and “Trailer Park Barbie,” and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.
And from Atlantic Magazine’s Andrew Sullivan: “Sarah Palin’s vagina is the font of all evil in the galaxy.”
Nothing is off-limits, not actress Sandra Bernhard’s wish that Palin be gang-raped or the sexualization of Palin’s daughters.
As every woman knows, leering looks, lurid words, and veiled threats are intended to evoke terror. Sexual violence is a form of terrorism.
The American Left has a long history of defiling people to control and break them. The hard core ’60s leftists were masters of guerrilla warfare, like the Symbionese Liberation Army repeatedly raping Patty Hearst. Huey P. Newton sent a male Black Panther to the hospital, bloodied and damaged from a punishment of sodomy.
The extreme Left still consider themselves warriors, righteous soldiers for their Marxist cause. With Palin, they use sexual violence as part of their military arsenal.
Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin’s violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.
The wilding of any woman is reprehensible. But defiling a mother of five with a babe in her arms, and a grandmother to boot, is particularly obscene. It is, of course, Palin’s unapologetic motherhood that fuels the leftist fire.
Because as a mother and a fertile woman, Palin is as close to the sacred as a person gets. She is not just politically pro-life. Her whole being emanates life, which is a stark contrast to the darkness of the Left, the life-despoilers.
These “progressives” are so alienated from the sacred that they perceive nothing as sacred. And they will destroy anyone whose goodness shines a mirror on their pathology. The spiritually barren must annihilate the vital and the fertile.
It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I’ve discovered that everything I believed was wrong.
But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it’s a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.
In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than sheild the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
In these dark times, with spiritually bankrupt people at the helm, thank God we have bright lights like Sarah Palin to illuminate the darkness.
Excellent catch, Amy.
Beautiful piece by Robin of Berkley.
SYD
Why does this suprise anyone? Wasn’t it Eldridge Cleaver who said that the only position a woman should have in his organization was prone? They are only interested in women having certain rights because it will obsolve them of any responsibility and it doesn’t cost them anything. You know how you can tell if a man is feminist? If he believes in your rights even when it inconvenices him.
BTW, has anyone read the boodk by Barbara Berg, “Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future?”
Happy Thanksgiving All!
I remember 15 years ago at my college sitting in a room with a group of feminists being told that I couldn’t talk about genital mutilation because of ‘cultural sensitivity.’ My response was F..K that.
The liberal lie is the biggest lie of all because unlike the conservatives the liberals pretend to support women when really all they support is a tacit permission to sometimes allow some women to have access to abortions. Liberals are not a friend to women, and neither are conservatives. However, at this point in my life I will stand with conservatives to bring down the biggest lie of them all–Barack Obama. After this is done I will stand with women and men who want to promote women’s issues and positive action in general.
I will never get over what was done to women in the last two years. Every time I thought that women would rise up and protest, burn down buildings, or at least turn over a car or two instead we just wrung our hands and waited for someone to notice. Every time Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin were treated in a way that should have brought tears to the eyes of even the most jaded misogynist nothing was really said or done. Hollywood, women in general, husbands, boyfriends, fathers…..no one really said or did anything. I remember being told by some of Mrs. Clinton’s team that women were the ‘least supportive’ of the sub-groups. SHOCKING. Utterly shocking.
I stood and held a sign for 7 days during the general election that said “Don’t blame me I voted for Hillary Clinton” and underneath that was “and then I voted for Sarah.” I had my life threatened, was called every name in the book, and even had things thrown at me–by liberals, gays and lesbians, people of color. A ‘very important person’ in the gay/lesbian community called me to tell me that I was a stupid little girl and that this was his life. HIS LIFE. This is my life and it is my constitutional right to stand and hold that sign and it is my right to vote for the best person and it is my right not to be threatened. But I was just a stupid little girl.
I will never forget Denver, and to those of you who know what happened and did nothing shame on you. And to those of you who masterminded it F…K you. Where was Amy Goodman with Democracy Now, where was Michael Moore, where was the liberal voice? Oh, I remember, sucking up to a person whose track record wouldn’t have gotten him a job at a small company and whose behavior said more than his teleprompter ever could.
We had a chance last year people. A real chance to do something important for America and for women. But for the liberals, hope and change might actually mean something instead of being verbal triggers for the worst time of my life. I will use Rev. Wright’s own words when I utter my truthful feelings to all of the liberal liars, the happy misogynists, the woman hating speech writing team that propped up this thug and his cadre of crooks, “God damn you all.” And I meant it……
Well my eyes have certainly been opened to the misogyny of the Left. I had an epiphany in the midst of all the abuse. Funny how that works. It’s kind of hard to hold onto the idea of liberals being concerned about womens rights when you are being verbally abused and subjected to people’s rape fantasies as political commentary.
Quickie comment: I don’t think that saying she “abhors” abortion is really acknowledging the complexity of her opinion.
She abhors it personally … but she never once took the opportunity to take it away from other Alaskans when given the chance.
She abhors it … but when she found out that her last kid had Down Syndrome, she did say that she can understand why a woman in that situation would want one.
That’s a WAY friendlier attitude than the current jackass in the WH who seems to think it’s all about punishment and not important enough to even call it health care to boot. I’ll take her compassionate and nuanced “abhorrence” over his misogynist, emotionally dead “support.”
LOVED the comment she made about left-wing sleazebags, too. I watch my left-wing Sarah-hating friends turning themselves in knots to find a decent partner among those porn-addicted losers, and I wonder how long it’ll be before they clue in. For me, 2008 was enough to realize that womanhatred was a bipartisan issue.
Hm. I have a concern related to a quote from this:
“But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic
Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by
the hard Left, it’s a dangerous place for women, children, and other
living things.”
This made me think of a comment that sent up alarm bells for me from Al Gore that the TGW posted on their site, that he is calling for more “civil disobediance” (I just love that clean, neat phrase) in the environmental movement. He said something about how he’s going to start acting crazy to out-crazy the crazies.
I predict that, just like feminism got coopted nito the patriarchy, the environmentalist movement will get coopted (has started to be already) into the use-and-waste culture we have now. And that this comment from Gore is really the first serious trickle downhill.
This comment is the only way to sell environmentalism to young males 18-34 who can’t bother caring about anything unless they get to shoot mailboxes and overturn cars. And “crazy” political movements are never wonderful ones for women. STFUBITCH! has just become green.
And it will doom the environment and our place in it … because young males who want to overturn cars and yell STFUBITCH! are not the people who will wake up the next morning filled with care and love for the Earth. Just like I tried to argue in 2008, young men who talk about bros before hos will not become peace activists next morning. They will not end war. And sure enough … the war continues and gets worse and bigger every day. Because STICK IT TO THE BITCH YEAH! doesn’t turn into “Can’t we solve our problems peacefully?” after the hangover passes.
Gore just doomed the environmentalist movement, because not being crazy is the whole point. And encouraging what he so detachedly called “civil disobediance” just turns into overturned cars, rape, and STFUBITCH! Hellholes for women. And the creation of hellholes for women because we’re not important enough to care about is the whole reason behind why we degrade, pollute, and use that which gives us life.
Men aren’t the enemy. Misogynists are. The enemy are not wearing a uniform. They are every where and women need to open their eyes. Most of the women you see now in media and at least half of them in politics are women who have found their little niche in the Patriarchy and aren’t about to give it up, they are not leaders we can look up to and they aren’t about to give other women a hand up or a fair hearing. Glad to see the eye opening is happening in various parts of society.
Bes, I jsut feel like that sort fo hairsplitting is what’s kept us in last place all this time. We really, really, really need to just put women first PERIOD. We are everywhere in last place. Unless we commit to being in first place everywhere, nothing will change and we’ll end up being sucked back into the patriarchy again in thirty years.
Yes, misogyny is the target … but what often happens is that when a woman is a victim of misogyny from another woman, we use misogyny to punish the second woman. I don’t think we’re smart enough to avoid that, frankly. Anyone who pretends that they can disagree even with someone as rabid as Michelle Malkin without getting in sexist jabs is kidding themselves.
So we must LEAVE OFF women entirely. Until maybe in fifty years when we have enough women in public office that we are forced to start differentiating them based on policy, when seeing ANY female isn’t so shocking anymore that her femaleness isn’t the first thing we register.
That means that, well … women first. In every single circumstance. Men aren’t enemies in that outlook because they aren’t even on the radar.
Besides, everything I’ve said is still true in every meaningful statistical sense. Once “crazy” is permitted, things turn into hellholes for women. And where contempt for fertility is at the heart of the environmental devastation we’re seeing, not keeping that in mind in every single instance is going to doom us all.
Besides Bes, at least one side of teh this fight is indeed wearing a uniform whether we want to admit it or not: anything with tits is a target. The separation into two camps was not our idea, but there it is.
Misogyny went green a few years back, Janis. It’s depressing. We have working women around here hand washing cloth diapers, sorting recycling, feeling guilty about feminine hygiene products, carrying groceries home on the bus in cloth bags. Meanwhile their oh so enlightened male partners drive the biggest damn trucks you can imagine and strut themselves about as accomplished greenies.
Good point.
I know that animal welfare went misogynist a while back, too. Notice how every single goddamned example of animal cruelty in experimentation (which is definitely a probelm) dofucses on those stupid, trivial, worthless female products — as useless as their trivial female users. Seriously. What sorts of hideous experimentation did they have to do to create Viagra, and yet female hormone medication is the one they all scream about?
And I hadn’t thought of the cloth diaper/reusable pad angle, but you’re right. We’re the ones who are made to feel guilty about taking up the slighest space on the Earth, even for necessary items.
Wow, that’s true. You’re right. I remember resenting the whole diva-cup thing when I heard about it (although it does seem like a good money savings) for that reason. In a world when men are blowing everything in sight to kingdom come, I REFUSE to be guilted out of using pads. They’re comfortable, goddamn it, and I don’t have to get gloop all over my hands when using them. I’m no more ashamed of menstrual blood than I am ashamed of shit — but I don’t want either all over my hands when I’m in chinos in the bathroom at work.
Thank you, yttik — it needs to be said again and again that the environmental movement is filled with liberal dudes who don’t have any problem with creating lots of extra work for women. I saw a post on Inside Higher Ed’s “green” blog titled “Sustainability and Sexism,” and I got excited — finally, someone gets it! Instead, it was a lament by a male university administrator about how our current sustainability crisis is a result of the failure to embrace “feminine” values like harmony with nature. If that doesn’t give you enough of an idea about where he’s coming from, he also likes to rhapsodize about a world where “fewer families needed two full-time incomes” and “more cooking, more childcare, more lawn care, more cleaning, more consumer services of all sorts were provided within the household.”
Wow Amy!
The article “The Wilding Of Sarah Palin” sure hit home for me. It pretty much expressed everything I have been felling about my party and libertine liberals. I quess, growing up in Philadelphia during the 60′s and 70′s I was doomed to be a liberal democrat. I have learned alot about my party and with an newly opened mind I have found conservative sexism to be a pretty innocent old fashioned habit when compared to liberal ghetto misogyny. I also have come to believe that the left has exploited race to an extreem and I did peg Rev. Wright for a poverty pimp, early on. Surely Barak Obama deserves a PHD from the school or Black “Liberation” Theology. He along with Community Orginizers International will prove to be the ones who will rape the poor and sell them to the worlds banking oligarchs. I have come to detest the left. Only Dennis Kucinich is authentic. The rest are frauds and will turn this nation into a sess pool of misogyny and poverty.
I am ashamed that I was one of the libtards who defended Bill Clinton so strongly against the republicans. I never thought I would quote Ann Coulter, but Bill Clinton did in fact treat women like ass trays. He humiliated his wife and daughter for a cheep thrill in the oval office.
Obama is the greatest enabler of misogyny. He has a history of mowing down his female opponents starting way back in Chicago with Alice Palmer. No respect for the mother or grandmother who raised him but books written for two men-his polygamist deed beat father and his friend and mentor Rev. Wright. How does one explain that.
Any way sorry for the long post.
I am just another recovering liberal.
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