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…and while you’re at it, invite Lady
De Uppity Rothschild along.
Ms. Rothschild told reporters last month that she supports Gov. Palin partly
because she is a woman. “I love Sarah Palin,” she said. “I
think she’s pretty cool. Of course, we disagree on some issues.”
If this is the reaction “liberated” women, you know feminists,
get over a woman simply showing up on a political ticket, well, genitalia must
be all. Ms.
Paglia opines:
Many others listening to Sarah Palin at her debate went into conniptions
about what they assailed as her incoherence or incompetence. But I was never
in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was
admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate
structures of her discourse — which did seem to fly by in fragments at times
but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains
it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is
a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come. That she
holds views completely opposed to mine is irrelevant.Even if she disappears from the scene forever after a McCain defeat, Palin
will still have made an enormous and lasting contribution to feminism. …
Oh, gag me. …no wait. I think it’s the once brilliant author who wants to
bind Sarah Palin, in a sensual rhetorical embrace from which neither will escape.
The only contribution to “feminism” Palin has offered is to make
the political female model now someone who looks great, has charisma, is loved
by the camera, but who has absolutely positively no idea whatsoever about any
pressing issue of our time or how to guide us through our challenges. First
question that will now be asked is this: does the camera like the woman; does
she have sex appeal? No doubt both are important, but I guarantee you nobody
ever asked that of Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Madeleine Albright, Golda
Meier, or Dr. Ivy
Matsepe-Casaburri.
Paglia, one of the original Madonna worshippers, has quite simply lost her
mind and is trying desperately to replace Madonna from whom she she has finally grown
tired. Paglia’s lust for a new heroine has rotted her once deep brain. Talking
about Sarah’s, ahem, “vitality” should be an embarrassment
to anyone, but especially for this once lauded academician who is now vying to be the second
punchline in Palin politics.
The hysterical emotionalism and eruptions of amoral malice at the arrival
of Sarah Palin exposed the weaknesses and limitations of current feminism.
But I am convinced that Palin’s bracing mix of male and female voices, as
well as her grounding in frontier grit and audacity, will prove to be a galvanizing
influence on aspiring Democratic women politicians too, from the municipal
level on up. Palin has shown a brand-new way of defining female ambition —
without losing femininity, spontaneity or humor.
Sarah Palin is equipped with nothing but mob inciting invectives that champion “kill him” crowds, though she
does have the gift for raising the male libido, and now female through Paglia,
while not burning a single brain cell. Palin offers no depth of actual policy
knowledge or understanding, but is simply a good looking broad with a gift for
never ending babble that she hopes her ‘g’ droppin’ political jive talk will
obfuscate. Perhaps Ms. Paglia missed Palin’s interviews with Ms. Couric? Better
yet, Paglia even celebrates Palin’s lack of cerebral stuff through none other
than the most powerful woman in all of politics who studied, experienced and
fought hard for her political prowess, all of it earned. Paglia speaking of
Palin stepping over Hillary Clinton to grab for the wanna be beauty queen.
She’s no pre-programmed wonk of the backstage Hillary Clinton school…
God forbid we have an intelligent woman who through years of experience got
where she is because she earned it.
Yeah, Paglia sure has redefined feminism all right. But her definition will
be the death of any woman who studies, pays her dues, and bulks up on policy brain
food, as Paglia willingly jettisons us back to the 1950s era, when men were men
and women were, well, objects of beauty, not brains, used as arm candy for old
men. As for her new flame Sarah Palin, well, at least they’ve styled her hair.
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