Like many women, when I heard about McCain's V.P. I became utterly indignant. There are some female voters out there who will see this as a good thing, women whose support for Hillary Clinton was driven by high levels of estrogen and a desire for the advancement of feminine power. They may disobey Hillary and redirect their support to the republican candidate despite their opposing views which is exactly what McCain is riding on. But where Sarah Palin is a woman in the anatomical sense that she can give birth to five children and drive them to hockey practice, in her political views she is a gender contradiction. August 26 was National Women's Suffrage Day, and as much as I am proud that our nation has grown so much as to have an African American democratic presidential candidate at the same time as having a republican female V.P. candidate, I am also sure that if Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul were still around today they'd be less likely to give the Alaskan governor a congratulatory hand shake as they would maybe a sharp bitch slap. Palin is against sexual education and promotes abstinance instead (and considering she's had five children and her unwed daughter is five months pregnant genetically the Palin women must have strong sex drives to have to abstain from), she is pro-life, and she has not showed any support for women's equal pay. Does this sound like the first female vice president or is it just another oppressive conservative man in drag?
There is an article in Vanity Fair by Dee Dee Myers that expresses exactly what I was thinking when I heard about Palin. Take a look at Sarah Palin: a Sleight of Gender?
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Agreed. I think it's wonderful that women are participating more in politics and gaining exposure, but other than our genitals, I have absolutely nothing in common with Sarah Palin. I have trouble being happy that there could be a female vice president when she would be detrimental to the women of America.
She belongs to "Feminists for Life," an organization filled with women who called themselves feminists, but are fervently anti-choice. I see this as an extreme oxymoron. How can you be a feminist and not believe that women should have control over their bodies and reproductive functions? I feel like too many people are way too quick to praise her for making history without realizing that a vote for Sarah Palin is a vote against the rights of women.
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