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I posted the following yesterday on Broadsheet about Palin...
You GIRLIES have it all backwards
Dear Beth and Tina...
The point you're missing is that Sarah Palin herself is anti-feminist. So, electing her would be worse than electing the most sexist man.
I would argue that Sarah Palin, much as I dislike her, is MORE of a feminist than you self-styled leftist pseudo-feminists.
Wasn't feminism about equal opportunity? Wasn't it about women taking on men and making lives for themselves? Wasn't it about women being independent and thinking for themselves?
So explain to me how it is that you can imagine Sarah Palin to be weak on feminism?
Just because she has an issue with you women killing your flesh and blood in the womb? (for the record, I do believe abortion is murder, but ONLY after the halfway point or so)
Just because she is not standing there with her hands out, waiting for the courts to hand her some gimme at the expense of the men around her?
Just because she is not whining and begging that life is just SOOOO unfair because she actually has to get out there and hustle?
Just because she is not pointing firngers and laying blame for all the world's woes on the men around her?
She does not do any of these things, but I sure as hell know a lot of supposed "feminists" (whiny little babies, really) who DO act and think this way. [just look at the Salon boards for examples]
Hell, much as I disagree with Palin's politics, you can give me a WHOLE SOCIETY FULL of women like her, who are strong and stand up for themselves, who take half the blame and responsibility for how society is run, who are confident enough to take on all comers. Now, I may be inculcating Palin with behavior she may not actually be engaging in. For all I know, she bitches and moans about men and about how she needs men to hand her things too. But if one looks at trends and tendencies, I would vouch that a Palinesque woman would outshine a typical simpering man-hating self-styled Berkeley proto-lesbian anyway, anyday, in most men's minds- (at least in those men not firmly embedded in their girlfriend's vaginas 24/7/365, like a blood leech, and hoping she doesn't finally kick him out).
You women really just do not get it, do you??? Men want REAL, strong women. Women we would WANT to defend and protect.
We men most definitely do NOT want simpering, excuse mongering, cynical deviants as most of you leftie so-called feminists seem to be.
As a centrist libertarian who will vote Ron Paul in November, I am secretly almost HOPING McSame wins in November just to stick it to you man-hating manipulative "Faludian" lefties.
I may not care for Palin and her dipsy-do cutesy-poo look, and her politics may not interest me, as I am not into fascism, but she sure seems mighty preferable to what the left has on offer these days with its 'gimme, gimme, the presidency because I deserve it. because you people OWE IT TO ME' mewly Clintonites.
I doubt it more and more.
for teen mothers?
And why is nobody mentioning the fact that Joe Biden authored the very important Violence Against Woman Act of 1994??? One that may be responsible for reducing domestic violence against women by 25%!! As someone who volunteers for a domestic violence shelter, I take this very much to heart. There are still far too many American women affected by domestic violence (approximately 1 in 4), and Joe Biden was vital in making sure these women had resources and a voice.
This is one reason I was considering NOT voting for Obama/Biden.
Men are abused as often as women are. So how come no Violence Against MEN Act?
Liberals, the JIG is UP. Face another loss come November.
How to FIX this? Unlatch yourselves from the FEMALE FIRST, MEN SUCK league of so-called feminism (I hate to even call it that) and send them out to sea to drown.
The lib girlies can go suck it. Frankly, the more I see you lefties objecting to Pags and to her appraisal of Palin and the more I see of Palin and her STRENGTH, the more you liberal lefties feminists make my STOMACH ROIL.
I suspect the MAJORITY of men are beginning to finally see the joke that leftie feminism has become.
It is quite clear now, leftie feminism was ALWAYS about treating women to privileges on the backs of men rather than women standing side by side with their men
ALA PALIN.
Now, I may not agree with her politics, per se, but at least her feminism (TRUE FEMINISM, REALLY) does not make my stomach roil.
ha ha ha, marginalized losers...
Do regular average, people prefer weak, whimpering women or STRONG, assertive women?
Do regular average, people prefer men defending weak, whimpering women or do they prefer men who CONFIDENTLY stand beside STRONG assertive women?
Now I know some subset of people prefers women remain weak and whiny and plaintive. They are called LIBERALS. I can understand why most NORMAL people stay away from being part of THAT group.
Have fun come November 3, (say, "buh bye") libs...
were intellectuals, and into subtlety, and shades of gray, and parsing arguments down to fine points.
all I see on this board today is ad hominem name calling and desperate jabs at trying to assert some credibility.
Face it, McSame, with one selection of a woman for a running mate, has exposed the left as the hollow, pretentious shell that it is. Frankly, McSame impresses me more and more for having achieved this so deftly.