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Here's a case in point. Jezebel's sister site calling Carrie Prejean a "Porn model". Sickening.
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But I guess that's okay because she opposes same sex marriage.
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I do understand, though, that it's hard to stick up for someone who'd throw YOU under the bus if she had the opportunity, and only opposes sexism and hateful rhetoric when it's aimed at her and her family. And part of the frustration comes from hearing Republicans (that means you) cry foul on misogyny when they glorify it in every other instance. It'd be nice to hear Palin's Republican defenders stand up against sexism when it's directed at, oh, anyone else but one of their own. You haven't been here in months, as far as I can tell. Because just like Palin, you're a hypocrite who only recognizes sexism when it hurts you or your political party personally.
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I can't feel sorry for her either.
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I can stand up for my principles and still find Sarah Palin revolting as a person, and even acknowledge that I doubt she'd ever do the same for me. The fact that she's horrifying on multiple levels doesn't justify the jokes.
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So you can't blame him.
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FOX brought obama into it, which in standard fox form, is going way too far.
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That said, Sarah Palin's response increasingly smacks of political posturing, thereby lessening my sympathy for her - but not for her daughters - though it in no way makes me any less pissed at Dave.
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I would balk at defending Sarah, or even Bristol at this point, who is in an adult role regardless of her age, but Willow is still a little girl. Furthermore, I find the excuse, "but I thought it was Bristol!!" to be pretty weak. Even if he did think he was talking about Bristol, the joke was reprehensible, simply because of the content.
Just because she's weak on women's issues doesn't mean we should be. Is this any different than an "asking for it" argument?
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Also, I'm sorry but the original "slutty flight attendant" comment was shitty and sexist.
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And he didn't "think" he was talking about Bristol, he was. The joke had nothing to do with rape.
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And perhaps this is why I, personally, am having trouble getting as worked up as I would in another case - both are wrong, but Dave's just making a lameass (sexist) joke (which I wouldn't stand for if one of my friends made it), but Palin is being more than ridiculous. She is, as usual, trying to whip conservatives into a frenzy and after two men were just killed because some loonytunes conservatives got whipped into a frenzy? MY FUSE HAS RUN OUT ON JUST BEING ANNOYED OR DISGUSTED BY HER AND HER ILK.
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I am also tired of people letting this stuff go because they don't like Sarah Palin, or because Letterman is just a comedian and he makes jokes about men too! I'm sorry, but there is a huge difference between making fun of Rod Blagovich's hair and saying Sarah Palin looks slutty.
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Palin was presented with a situation where a late-night comedian poked fun at her 18 year old daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Instead of just objecting to that, I suspect she realised it just doesn't have the sort of punch needed to get her in the bigger papers and onto the better shows, so she decided to skew it a bit. And now she's parading around claiming that Letterman is an old lech who fantasizes about her 14 year old daughter being statutorily raped during a baseball game.
This is not protection of women or of family. This is DELIBERATELY introducing a 14 year old, uninvolved girl into the debate, purely for political gain.
There is no upside for Willow here. People are now asking if her mother is implying Letterman would be a danger to Willow, and Palin herself is happy to let that just be "out there". Willow is fourteen, for chrissakes. Did she need to be exploited in this way, did she need a national conversation about her being raped? Hell no. And from what I can see, the blame for her involvement in this entire thing lies squarely at her mother's feet.
Sarah Palin, I have a hard time riling up my feminist side when I sense you are less about protecting your kids, and more about sacrificing your 14 year old daughter on the altar of media coverage.
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And if we're really going to talk about males who should be kept away from your daughters? Really? You want to go to there? Hi, Levi Johnston here to see you.
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