Boy, am I tired of listening to this rhetoric about the advancement for the women's movement because of Palin. How is that? Just solely on the basis of her being a woman. When Joe Lieberman (remember when he ran in 2000, was not this new Joe Lieberman reinvention of himself) ran, I didn't feel it was a step forward solely because he was Jewish. I almost considered that some kind of reverse antisemitism. We should be electing leaders based on who they are, and what they stand for, and of course their qualifications. Bottom line. Period. Don't often agree with things she said, but Gloria Steinem nailed it in this editorial. Click Here.
PS I didnt put the elephant today because this wasn't very elephanty.
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She believes in women's rights, but only for herself and her family. She wouldn't let other women have the same rights.
I have never considered myself a feminist, but I have learned that although women have come a long, long way in America, we are not all the way there. The tough part is that many of the problems affecting women today are either 1) problems that are not specific to women but that affect them disproportionately or 2) very subtle, subliminal, and even inadvertent. Maybe this part, this figuring out how to get some men to be a little less sexist when they don't even know that they are and don't mean to be or reversing the shrinking Middle Class that is not specific to women, but affects them, especially single mothers, disproportionately, is the hard part. I think that Gov. Palin being a woman is not a reason to vote for her, but I do think that having a professional, successful mother in full view of everyone in the country, getting so much approval from so many, is good for women just in the example it sets. It makes it just a little bit more normal to see a woman be a mother and a professional and not have to trade one for the other. And if we get to see her husband helping out on the home front, that will be even better.
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