Shit.

I guess success is like sugar to flies. Funny, I'd have thought only movie stars and singers would have such influence. Maybe it's the politicization of America... Or the movie-star-ization of politics. How long will we wait for the first Sarah Palin movie? :-)

Not only did she demonstrate that she knows nothing about foreign policy, she didn't even have the brains to get herself to a hairstylist before appearing on national television. Her hair looked like she just tumbled out of bed.

Come on Sarah, there must be at least one decent salon in Alaska. If not, I'm sure Cindy can fly someone in.

what one of the popular Halloween costumes will be this year.

CALLING ALL DRAG QUEENS!!!!!!!

...look divine!

Just bought them a couple weeks ago.

I may have to permanently retire them now. Damn you Sarah Palin.

...Pink Ingloos.

Yep, this is going to be one of the more popular Halloween costumes this year. Along with the pillow-under-dress daughter and hockey hubby.

I happened to go in for a hair appointment the day after Palin was named, and my stylist said all her fellow stylists at the salon wanted to get their hands on Palin's hair and update it about a decade. The bangs in particular got dissed.

Or perhaps on Marge Simpson.

As for her suits, they look like flight attendant uniforms from the 1980s.

Hmmmmm, very disturbing. Perhaps Sarah Palin should do some Revlon commercials instead of being a V.P. candidate. Or, uhm, perhaps Sarah Palin should be palling around with Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton instead of being a V.P. candidate. Maybe Sarah Palin should go back to being a sports anchor instead of being a V.P. candidate.

I'm sure most of us have heard that according to recent polling McCain has gained about 20 points amongst women over Obama in the last 2 weeks. Hmmm, is that primarily because women like how Sarah Palin looks? Perhaps she should have her own T.V. show set in alaska where she kills things, eats things and makes grand pronouncements about the will of God instead of being a V.P. candidate. None of this is to say there is anything wrong with Sarah Palin being attractive (if she is, which I am indifferent to), but couldn't she at least be about anything other than being attractive just so all of this wouldn't be such a joke? I'd seriously like to hear a single woman tell me one thing they like about Sarah Palin besides her appearance or that she is tough or something like that. What would Sarah Palin do as V.P. besides help cosmetics makers sell product?

But wait, I guess celebrity is good now?

It's hard to keep up.

but I utterly fail to see the physical appeal of this woman. Her hairdo is outdated and she dresses like someone who hasn't followed fashion trends in about 10 years.

remind me of every teacher I hated in high school back in the 60s. Maybe I dislike her because of my subconscious connection of her with bad teachers. No, I know it's her alleged thoughts that are the real reason. But the hair and clothes don't help.

I've been thinking since the day they rolled her out that while her glasses say "serious thinker" (yeah, right), her "fun chick" high-volume hair--especially those twists with the ends all loose on top of her head--is intended to relay the message that she'd be, well, you know, fun to have a beer with. That seems to be her target demographic.

/sigh

Is this is? Is this the best we can do? The woman is scary, horrifyingly under qualified for the position and chock full of wacky ideas and we mock her fashion?

I don't mean to come off as a dick or anything, but these articles and letters sections have started to read like parody. Broadsheet wants to highlight the struggles of the woman's struggle for equality, a fight against being seen only as visual objects. Yet here it is, some of the worst stereotypical catty behavior.

Maybe I'm just crabby today or something, but I read these letters everyday and I've come to know the writing styles and opinions of a lot of you and I just have to wonder if were not better than this.

or maybe I'm just crabby.

that Raquel Welch would have been a much better VP pick than Palin. Welch certainly has more international experience, and Welch only has couple years less governing experience than Palin.

Even Karl Rove in his wildest wet dream could not have imagined the cultural contagion he unleased with the nomination of Palin and Broadsheet (with the best of feminist intentions) continues to unwittingly spread.

Can we please have a moratorium on this woman? We can call it Beyond the Palin and schedule it to begin September 15, the anniversary of Darwin's landing on the Galapagos, Nabokov's publishing of Lolita and the birth of Oliver Stone, all non-events on the Palin calendar.

Wow, your english has really improved, Svutlana! That is fairly advanced sentence construction for someone who wrote "Can finish Svutlana this sentence many way, but won't." less than 2 weeks ago!!

Who is your english teacher?

Are seen as mindless imitating sheep consumers.

Are her glasses prescription-wear, or non-prescription plastic? If she is near-sighted, why are her eyes, beneath the glasses from our view point, lined up perfectly with the rest of her face?

I thought one could buy non-refractive eyewear only in foreign countries, such as Canada, but perhaps I'm behind the times in my eyewear, in spite of having worn glasses since the age of 9 and now being a middle-aged lady who continues to wear regular ol' refractive-reflective eyeglasses, contact lenses, reading glasses, bifocal lenses, the whole very bad-eyesight gamut, here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJmyrx26Gc

"people talk

about my image

like i come in two dimensions

like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind

like what i happen to be wearing

the day that someone takes a picture

is my new statement for all of womankind"

Pretty sure she probably hates Palin with a white hot passion, but hey I doubt she'd be in favor of the 'feminist' section of an online paper being obsessed with a possible female VPs candidates looks in general (and in this case hairdo in specific) regardless of her ideology.

I'm disappointed to find that this is what is considered feminism; I had thought there was more depth to it than mere cliquishness.