This kind of article not only harms you, it harms the woman's movement (although it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what that means, now), and it certainly harms woman -- as distinguished from your phony baloney movement. It's like third rate African Americans calling other African Americans hoes and niggers. You are doing more damage to your movement (whatever it is you are moving toward), than Rush Limbaugh. I'm glad, though, frankly, because it exposes the "feminists" of the world for all to see. They are femiNAZIs indeed. And the world is seeing it in living color. It's as though you are drunk with rage-- but it's going on too long -- it's like a multi-day drunken group binge. But it's not Palin you are mad at. You are not mad at those who demean women or try to keep them down (obviously to all, now). She didn't say anything verbally that was real tough. Maybe it was her body language. Her body language, to you, was screaming "my baby was born alive", and your insane little minds heard her say, though she didn't say it, "and yours wasn't." It wasn't. Her baby lives.

Salon is feeding the Palin sexism-victim narrative. Maybe she'll send you a thank you note.

I'm sure many others have said this, but what is this sexist bullshit doing on salon.com??

I'm not going to read this article. The headline and picture are offensive.

There are plenty of things wrong with Palin that have nothing to do with her gender.

Get your head out of your ass Kamiya, Walsh, and the rest of you.

You have a multitude of policy- and ethics-related issues over which to attack Sarah Palin. Use those for all they're worth. Focus on the facts that this woman has some of the most far-right ideas out there. She thinks that creationism is a valid scientific theory, for cryin' out loud! She doesn't want comprehensive sex education taught in public schools. She thinks that women who were sexually assaulted shouldn't be allowed to terminate pregnancies. She condones animal cruelty. She's a member of a religion that believes in a literal rapture and armageddon. She's been under scrutiny in Alaska for firing someone who didn't want to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She doesn't believe that human-generated pollution is contributing to global warming. She doesn't give a rat's @$$ about protecting the environment. She wants to abolish most social assistance programs. Go after her for these things!

But don't fall into the same sexist bullshit that the GOP directed at Hillary Clinton. Just Stop It! Tina is right - many independent women are going to notice sexism in both parties, so they'll vote for the ticket that has the woman on it. Let's not shoot ourselves in our collective foot.

Everything about the GOP is about OIL. Iraq, now Georgia--yes, that's all about OIL. Palin is all about drilling in Alaska and then offshore, so the entire gulf will look like Houston. She brings in the far right with her limited and limiting views, which is another plus for the GOP. But Big Oil is frightened of New Energy and she will help Big Oil keep New Energy at bay. She is first and foremost about BIg Oil.

Without reducing them to sexual archetypes?

No.

This has been another edition of "Simple Answers to Simple Questions."

......was a surreal, disturbing experience. I kept wondering, were we all responding to the same article?

Earth to liberal America: The GOP is a vicious, extremist, criminal organization bent on eroding our basic liberties and obliterating what remains of our democratic form of government. Neither this party nor its representatives deserve our respect. They forfeited that right years ago with their abominable, outrageous behavior.

I found Gary Kamiya's article thoroughly entertaining and absolutely accurate. Palin is a political featherweight who was added to the McCain ticket for utterly transparent, half-assed reasons. The article simply points out the elephant under the couch: this woman's selection as a vice-presidential candidate represents the latest instance of "style" (appalling, yes, but there's no accounting for taste) over substance within the GOP. And it does so in a way that actually provokes laughter in balanced human beings. Lord knows, that's a rare gift these days.

Kamiya has skewered this wretched woman and the political nightmare machine that spawned her with the oldest weapon in the polemicist's aresenal (take a deep breath, all you dessicated, doctrinaire marxists) - satire. Look it up in the fucking dictionary.

And cheers to Gary Kamiya for his keen observation and sharp wit. Don't let the pointy-heads get you down.

Robert W. Arellano

The dominatrix article...is so completely offensive, the artwork alone!! The draw of the newsworthy corset was a shitty move! I had to give the writer the benefit of the doubt so I read on. Ok I get it..sex sells. Although I appreciate your anti-McCain stance and I understand your angle on her strategic placement and role and the reaction of the conservative boner...I have to question the boner of the writer himself. I felt like you were getting off just laying out your sexualized criticism. I found the whole manner in which you approached the subject a mere replication of what you're pointing out. Maybe that was your own ironic tactic. It was lost on me. This woman, although I completely disagree with her political views, at the very least deserves to not be objectified by those who preach from a liberal pulpit. Yeah maybe they did it first, but you did it again!

What exactly makes you think Kamiya had anything to do with the picture that accompanies his article? and since you say you didn't read the article what basis do you have for slamming Kamiya. The level of irrationality at Salon.com is off the chart today. Let's get this straight: Palin made an issue of herself being a woman the second she started trotting around her children like political props. she said many shrill, nasty things in her acceptance speech, her words full of lies and distortions. Republican operatives immediately began to fawn all over Palin as hot (which by the way she isn't, she is just a normal looking woman). McCain chose Palin specifically to appeal to disenfranchised Hillary supporters and it is actually working. so how is Palin being a woman not a political question?