Color me unimpressed. Why the topic is certainly salient — bitch v. ditz, or a nouveau Madonna-Whore dichotomy — the author doesn’t do the topic any service in her partisan trashing of Sarah Palin.

She attempts to discuss this “very serious issue” but ultimately acts no better than the so-called feminists that dogged Palin for the very “ditz” applique they smeared her with; to wit, the author essentially resigns to saying Palin was “asking for it” — a trait any liberal feminist would sniff out as a sexist parallel to justifying rape.

So while an interesting topic, this was a crappy article. Others with a far smaller pulpit from which to print have said far more, and yet still maintained their “liberal” lens from which to perceive this phenomenon.

I highly recommend anyone here to read this post by Anglachel, a Hillary Clinton supporter, entitled “The Lady Killers.”

Exit quotation from that link:

Misogyny deniers try to focus on just a few figures, and explain away broad actions as being reasonable responses to these despicable, polarizing broads. No, no, it’s not that we are kicking women down; it’s that Hillary’s a cold bitch! We’d like someone else. But not Ferraro, that racist, shriveled up old hag. And Chelsea is really just letting herself get pimped out. Then we defend teenage sexuality, except for that wanton slut, Bristol Palin, and her bigger slut, the mother I’d like to fuck (MILF), Sarah. But then how to explain the fury expressed at women who do not support Obama? It’s any woman who does not toe the line, not just the politicians.

And, that, my friends, is something you can take to the bank.

lansing quaker on November 18, 2008 at 12:31 AM

Hillary got screwed.Her own party took away her delegates.

NeoKong on November 18, 2008 at 12:53 AM

And as a Michigan voter, I’ll never forget that. My Hillary Clinton vote was effectively stolen.

lansing quaker on November 18, 2008 at 12:58 AM