My two cents on Sarah Palin

Sigh. I’ve been meaning to write about Sarah Palin’s VP nom for quite a while, but to be honest at first I was steaming mad but now I’ve just lost the heart to discuss. There’s been so much said on so many different sites and articles that I think everything I’ve wanted to say has already been said and hopefully read by you. However, if you would like to read more, head over to CA NOW and their Why Sarah Palin is Bad for American Woman article to find links and information galore on Palin. Or, see a breakdown on Sarah Palin’s lies. Or head here to find out why Palin is not a feminist, despite newspaper article after newspaper article calling her one. Gloria Steinem said it quite well in the LA Times with Palin: wrong woman, wrong message.

However, if you’re like me and it’s all just so disheartening, take a look at one of my new favorites, Target Women’s take on Sarah Palin. But my all-time favorite Palin coverage has to go to Jon Stewart, and if you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor and watch the gender card be played and the hypocrisy of right-wingers.
I am appalled at the Republicans hypocrisy of shouting “SEXISM” in defense of any criticism against Palin. I am saddened that Bristol, Palin’s 17 year old daughter, has had her decisions thrown into the spotlight and has most likely been forced into a shotgun wedding. I am angered that Palin says Bristol made a choice, and yet Palin doesn’t believe that women should have a choice, so how can she use that word? I’m saddened that the first mainstream woman to run for Pres/VP is (in my mind) such a poor representation of women in politics. I am frustrated by people who may believe that just because Palin is a woman that she is for women’s rights–she’s not.

Like I said, I have nothing exceptionally new to add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said. I did, however, want to provide links for others to read as well as provide a place for opening up conversation. What do you guys think?

won’t you take me to linkytown (8/10-8/16)

After a brief absence, the weekly link post is back! Like I said earlier, I’ve been a bit preoccupied and for that I apologize. (It’s summer, come on…) How are (are?) people getting along reading Pope Joan? I’ve been reading like a fiend, and I’m looking forward to a discussion. Here’s a few stories from the past few weeks, after the jump.

O’Reilly can suck my bloody tampon

Today I’m the angry feminist.

I’ve been…less than fond of Bill O’Reilly for quite some time now, but nothing made me angrier than this clip in which he earns the number one spot on my f**k you list. In the clip, O’Reilly shows Planned Parenthood’s recent commercial that took footage from McCain’s intelligent non-answer when pressed on health care’s coverage of Viagra and not birth control. McCain was unable to answer the question, after a long and awkward silence he states “I don’t know enough about it to give you an informed answer.” Clearly you’ve never thought about birth control, huh? Welcome to the world of women, asshat.

And rightfully so Planned Parenthood had a problem with this, “because women deserve quality affordable health care” (as stated in their commercial). But here’s what O’Reilly had to say, after in an oh-so-unbiased introduction calling Planned Parenthood “fanatics”:

(shakes head condescendingly) “Okay, listen up, Viagra is used to help a medical condition, that’s why it’s covered. Birth control is not a medical condition, it is a choice. Why should I or anybody else have to pay for other people’s choices? Do I have to buy you DINNER before you use the birth control? Give me and every other taxpayer a break, Planned Parenthood.”

Are you offended? Because I’m offended. No, offended doesn’t even cover the expanse of my emotion. The words that he speaks, but most specifically the way in which he says them, is the most condescending misogynist bullshit assholery I have heard in a long while.

Okay. Break from the anger. Divide and conquer.