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11/17/09
This isn't sexism in the slightest. And I should remind everyone that Jezebel has a specific interest for exploiting this non-controversy for traffic. #sarahpalin
11/18/09
You can have usefully added to the discussion by posting your own thoughts about the issue, instead you chose to make a bitchy non sequitur comment.
Please try again.
11/17/09
Newsweek couldn't have used this picture if it didn't exist. They couldn't have used it if it were a candid from her private collection. But alas, she DID pose for this picture. She HAS played on her looks. And now she's mad that people comment on her looks. Kinda how she trotted her family out to display her family values, but then bristled when anyone questioned her family values.
You can't have it both ways Ms. Palin. Either you conduct yourself in the ways that preclude a woman being taken seriously in the world's oldest Boys Club, or deal with the fallout. But is anyone really shocked that a woman that winked at the camera in a national debate and posed for this picture (albeit with legs to die for) isn't being taken seriously? It's not sexist on Newsweek's part. It was stupid on Sarah Palin's part.
11/18/09
[www.runnersworld.com]
Eliot Spitzer and David Patterson are both in that gallery, yet I can't image Newsweek running either photo.
11/17/09
I think too often the Palin hate allows people to overlook the gender issues. Whether or not you like her, how we allow Palin to be treated will ricochet back on to other female politicians. #sarahpalin
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I second your statement. There is an obvious double standard for female politicians. #sarahpalin
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Palin is a joke, not because she is a woman, because she is a joke. Hillary isn't portrayed as such, because she is actually respectable. #sarahpalin
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BUT, I don't like the underlying message of what I am saying, which seems to be, "She shouldn't have dressed like that if she didn't want trouble" So, like I said. I'm torn. #sarahpalin
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And the thing about Joe Schmo is that Sarah Palin isn't Joe Schmo - she's someone that's actively trying to create a public image for herself and capitalize on that, and I think that any photo shoots that she agrees to participate in are up for comment - she did this to actively promote herself and her image, after all. To me, this photo is a representation of a lot of the reasons that Sarah Palin is a problematic political candidate (she's much more comfortable doing pageant poses for magazines than she is talking about serious policy issues, and those are the publicity opportunities which she pursues), and that seems completely appropriate for the Newsweek article. #sarahpalin
11/17/09
Publicity. She cared more about creating an image for herself than having integrity. #sarahpalin
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Fuck you, Newsweek, for making me side with Sarah Palin. Assholes. #sarahpalin
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With a headline like that, I'm just happy they didn't photoshop Palin's head onto this: #sarahpalin
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I just pulled the magazine out of my mailbox, and I'm not really offended. Sarah Palin willingly posed for this photo, and to me, the joke isn't the legs or the shorts. It's the staging and what she is trying to cram into one photo that is ridiculous:
Flag (which is as shiny as her gams)
Two Blackberries
French Manicure
Army Banner
Moccasins
Alaskan view of lake, forest and mountains
One electrical outlet baby proofed
One electrical outlet non-baby proofed
Sure, this was for a running magazine, but John Edwards posed for the same type of photo, and you could smell the funk in his old t-shirt. This photo was never about running to Palin. It's disingenuous for her to claim so now. #sarahpalin
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David Patterson seems to have been shot in his actual office, with both the US and NY flag as props [www.runnersworld.com]
There are several other cheesecake type photos from women who aren't sexy professionally (as far as I know) [www.runnersworld.com] [www.runnersworld.com]
I'd be surprised if this lady said, "I know, I'll pose in a hoop skirt, nothing says serious runner like a hoop skirt" [www.runnersworld.com]
11/17/09
Personally, I think that an interesting photo of Obama would be of him shirtless, emerging from a vat of maple syrup (tmi?), but that never makes it on the cover. Why? Because men are seen on the cover in their suits, as they should be, since a NEWS magazine shouldn't be sexually objectifying politicians (oh wait, except for the babe politicians). #sarahpalin
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Complete with the line "our new neighbor is hot." #sarahpalin
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Likewise, (and I have mentioned this in the previous Palin post), Michelle Obama posed for Prevention Magazine in a dress and were it to be used for another magazine, she could just be glad she was wise about how to pose in the first place. But...the pictures that were posted everywhere of her in shorts at the Grand Canyon...obviously, she was not intending to have those on a magazine cover, so, yes, if those pics made it on the cover of Newsweek, that would be awful.
Also, if Palin really cared not to draw attention to this, she could have said something about Newsweek not drawing attention to the issues she is dealing with right now, instead of just crying "sexist" to somehow draw attention to the word sex along with herself. But, being that she doesn't really discuss any issues, it makes it difficult. Or, if she really wanted to address the very real issue of sexism, she could have put some weight behind the issue and explained its problems and ways in which we as a culture could overcome that instead of just crying wolf (which is what her crying sexism has become, regardless of whether it is real or not). I don't really see her doing that though.
Newsweek still sucks though, for numerous other reasons. #sarahpalin
11/17/09
However, I hope Palin ends up like Tonya Harding--after attacking her opponent, she still didn't even place in the Olympics. If I remember correctly, she wasn't even in the top ten. #sarahpalin
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She's uninformed, pompous, egotistical, lazy (hello quitter), fame seeking, etc. Everytime she opens her mouth, twitters, or posts a facebook update, she provides more ammunition for her haters.
But the fixation is so often: Beauty Queen! The hair! The heels! The lipstick! The clothes!
Talk about lazy quitters. They aren't even trying. #sarahpalin
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*Not a runner unless chased or late for the bus. #sarahpalin
11/17/09
@yvanehtnioj: Yes, the covers are somewhat "sexified" but still really "realistic" to running.
If her picture looked like this, we wouldn't be having this conversation. #sarahpalin