Palin-Envy
On the heels of Pandora’s Republican Woman post comes Fox “News” look at a little thing that says if you are critical of ex-governor Sarah Palin, you are just envious of her success. Success of what? Quitting?
Tags: Republican Crazy, Sarah Palin, Women Issues
There were a lot of Republicans who said that women who criticized Palin were just jealous of her looks and her success. That isn’t true at all. One thing that does bother me is how she uses her looks (the winking and all) – it hurts women. It just feeds into the societal perceptions that women are better seen than heard and that they owe their success (especially if a woman is attractive) to something other than their talent.
There were a lot of Republicans who said that women who criticized Palin were just jealous of her looks and her success.
If that were true then women would also hate Tina Fey. No, I think there must be something else about Sarah that women are hating.
Well, I, for one, hate that she misuses and misrepresents her family to advance herself.
Are we making a list? *eager*
Go ahead Brooke.
I hated how she used the language of choice in describing the decisions of her own family but would deny that choice to other families.
The only reason that repubs say that liberals are jealous of her looks and her success (?!) is that they don’t have anything else to try to defend her on. Her “political” story is alot thinner than advertised and she didn’t help that story by becoming the Quitta from Wasilla. She was shown to be not ready for prime time in the campaign and she continues to prove that. But then, this is FOX, where the only things that matter to them (if you are a girl) are:
*you are good-looking
*you fall in line with the ideology
*getting paid
This woman is supposed to be at the forefront of the GOP broadening their base, when in fact they’ve pretty much produced a textbook case of the soft bigotry of low expectations. But these were the same people who thought that BushCo was the second coming of Reagan for awhile so you tell me.
soft bigotry of low expectations
Looove it!
Republican men love the middle school you’re just jealous because she’s pretty which is pretty insulting to all women.
I hate her snotty, trash-talking attitude. Remember her bragging about being mayor — “it’s like a community organizer, but with responsibilities,” and then it turned out that she hired a town manager to do the actual work. So it was a lie, basically, but it didn’t stop her snotty attitude. This is the kind of crap that makes sports so little fun.
This asshat attitude, not her looks, is why young conservative guys love her — it’s the same attitude they display much of the time.
I think Republicans like to hear their beliefs echoed back to them, especially through pretty faces.
Geezer,
The more I think about it, the more I think you’re right on the money. Remember how the urban legend that Palin’s teleprompter didn’t work during her speech? They want to believe that Palin’s words came from her soul.
The snotty, trash-talking attitude is something of the default communications position of the movement conservative. They see that as strength somehow. Of course, when you turn the snotty, trash-talking around on them they whine that you are not being civil.
But asshats they will be.
I just hate the press double standard for liberals vs. conservatives on trash talk. Alan Grayson is considered completely out-of-bounds for saying the same kind of things that conservatives say on a daily basis.