I will tell you something about Palin. She’s going to be difficult, and this is something I am still working out, because I am writing about it. But it’s difficult to even write about.
Sarah palin is the sort of woman who uses the male narrative about other women, to her advantage. We have all known these women. They make men feel real warm, down there, by playing up to their misogyny against other women, and making the man feel, that it’s ok, it’s cute. So cute, that it makes “real women” like Sarah, giggle. She did this when she called Hillary a whiner for pointing out the attacks of powerful, male, media mavens, and she did it again during that interview with two right wing males who called a female opponent of Sarah’s, a bitch, a cancer, and fat.
She then turns around and uses the narrative that actual feminists have already sweated, and I mean sweated, to lay out, with intellectual foundation, against the sexism in our media, to complain about her own coverage.
This puts women in the position, of number one, being horrified and pretty resentful of her gaming both male sexists, and feminist’s own work, to her advantage, and number two, being uncomfortable with allowing the sexist attacks against her anyway, because if allowed to stand, they will be used against pro-woman candidates who happen to be females.
It’s difficult, men won’t get it, especially men who are thinking “boy I’d like a piece of that”. It frankly makes me want to slap the shit out of her…but instead I have to intellectualize it.