Sexually Derogatory Remarks About Sarah Palin, GOP VP
August 29, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
“Sarah Palin is hot. I’d hit it like the Exxon Valdez.” from twitter.
“Biden will spank her =)” from twitter.
Vice President I’d Like to Fuck dot com (VIPLF.com) acronym for a new website up within hours of her nomination.
These are just examples of the sexually derogatory sexism appearing all over the internet in the first few HOURS of Sarah Palin’s nomination as McCain’s VP.
Still think all the sexism and misogyny in this election was about Hillary personally? Maybe now you realize it’s about all women?
Including YOU and Me.
Just for fun let’s collect them: So we all understand what kind of respect the men in the United States of America have for anyone female.
Copy and paste all the sexually derogatory and sexist references to Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, in the comments section of this post.
Not criticism of her politics or credentials and experience- but criticism that traces her worth or value to her sexuality or fuckability.
Just for kicks, we might throw in her ability to mother and be Vice President simultaneously and how that makes her neglectful of her infant baby with Downs Syndrome. It only took CNN 5 minutes to question that.
Gee – I wonder why women have self-worth and body-image issues?
I wonder why women feel conflicted about working and mothering?
Image source: www.johnmccain.com
Just overheard a male co-worker say: What was McCain thinking. This isn’t studen council. It’s not like they need someone to make the cookies.
It’s sad that people have chosen this route. She must be an intelligent and accomplished woman.
I overheard some guys say they’d be willing to vote for a woman as VP over one as P. What’s the difference? Yes, I stuck around long enough to hear. Apparently the P would be their boss and the VP is one of those “in one ear, out the other.”
I just read this:
“I just did a little research on her… She is mad fuckable; a MILF… Balls deep.”
and
“I would definitely split her like wet pine there is no doubt.”
Ick
Found an interesting one, someone set up a fake blog on typepad that is supposedly her. Makes her sound dumb, in an almost Valley Girl kind of way.
http://sarahpalin.typepad.com/
See, there’s a question here:
Is saying that the only reason she’s the VP pick is because she has a vagina a “sexually derogatory remark?” Because, looking at her (terribly thin) resume, it’s certainly not anything she’s achieved in her life.
And she’s a beautiful woman, no one’s doubting that. You go skimming the internets for jackasses giving innuendo and worse about beautiful women, you don’t have to look hard. I just don’t think she brings anything else to the table.
Ash: The subject here isn’t what she brings to the table and I think you know that. It’s how people are treating her because she is a woman.
I saw, She has a down syndrom child, she needs to be home with her kids.
I think that the only reason anyone’s taking her remotely seriously as a pick is because she’s a woman. That should say something.
Because, what are they going to talk about? That she backed Pat Buchanan in 2000? That she said that she never really wanted to be involved in public affairs? Her disastrous tenure as mayor of Wasilla (highlighted by an attempted recall election)? Her abuse of power as governor of Alaska? Her involvement with the same oil scandal as Ted Stevens is on trial for this month? The fact that on her very first foray onto the national stage, she lied to us about her stand on the Bridge to Nowhere?
The more I read about this woman, the more apparent it becomes that she was chosen for no other reason that she’s a beautiful woman who represents the fringe right. I would have loved to have seen a qualified woman on a major party ticket, but it wasn’t Hillary’s year and I can understand why Joe Biden makes a more attractive VP pick than Kathleen Sebelius (my personal favorite).
I think it’s a more productive use of the precious little time I have to be offended about things, to be offended by the fact that McCain thinks women are a bunch of easily-manipulated automatons who will pull the lever for anyone with a pair of X chromosomes, regardless of whether she is in any way competent.
Did I miss something, or are we talking about the sitting governor of the largest land-mass state being unqualified for veep while the other party has a guy running for POTUS who wrote some popular books about himself and served as a state assemblyman (yes, keep calling him a state senator if that makes you feel better) before becoming the junior senator of Illinois?
Here is a horrible one I just read:
“I would like to see some “Photoshopped” semen on Sarah Palin’s face. If there are any experts out there, or samples that you can provide links to, I would much appreciate it. Thank you”
Horrified: we are indeed. The difference is that over eighteen million people said “Yes, Barack Obama is prepared to be President of the United States” versus what increasingly seems to be a rush job of a pick, approved by no one but John McCain.
And it’s increasingly apparent that Sarah Palin was a disaster as a mayor, and, in the Republican mold of George W. Bush and his administration, failed upward.
Luv ya Tracie, but do you really want to put ALL men in the same category “..So we all understand what kind of respect THE MEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA have for anyone female”. Dads are raising girls as well and we can support “women’s” causes too, even if we don’t have a vajayjay.
I dont’ see her meshing well with John McCain. I’m not real sure what they agree on..or if she’s the type to sit by while he does something she doesn’t like?
I’ve heard commentary that he has to be surrounded by beauty queens – like Hugh Hefner. So basically this is his norm – there’s not indication he’s likely to see her as an equal or even competent. The vice president only does what the president lets them do. Unless they die. But, he’ll be dead so it’s not as if he has to get along with her then.
And one other thing: when you’re the first to break down a barrier, you have to be above reproach.
Jackie Robinson was chosen to be the first to break the color barrier in baseball because he had the skill and the strength of character to do it. When the white players spat on him, or tried to jam their spikes into his leg sliding for a base, he didn’t react. Combined with the fact that he was a hell of a player, he gained the respect of his team and the country.
The first woman to be in to the executive branch is going to have to put up with the misogynistic crap, and be so well-qualified as to make misogyny the only attack that can be made apart from the normal “disagrees with my viewpoint” attacks.
Sarah Palin fails to be a good breaker of barriers, and indeed fails to be a good candidate for Vice President. When you look at her resume, it becomes glaringly obvious that the only qualifications she has are that she’s a woman who holds lunatic fringe right-wing views. That’s bad for women, and that’s bad for breaking barriers. And, I think most importantly, it’s bad for the country should the unthinkable happen and John McCain be elected.
Alan whenever I talk about “men” in general apply these words “except for me.” That’s pretty much how women deal with sexism. We pretend we are “the exception” to keep on loving our decent husbands, fathers and sons and believing they really do want the best for us.
Ash show me the woman who is above reproach. She doesn’t exist. It’s like waiting for the tooth fairy to pay the dental bill. Never gonna happen no matter how much you believe.
We’ll NEVER ever get there if we have such a low standard for men – John McCain – and such an unmeetable standard of perfection for women, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.
Let me just remind you all to be careful what you wish for … You just might get it. And, God forbid you do, I will remind you of yoru views when your choice falls.
My grandfather always said that you don’t have a right to complain if you don’t vote. So after all this, don’t forget to vote. Don’t just sit here and run your mouths without putting your vote where your mouth is.
Yes I am mad and I don’t care who knows it. I want a politician who is honest and willing to take control of spending and foreign policy. The problem is that there are posts like this one who draw attention to STUPID things instead of debating the political issues.
That is WHY we don’t have good choices to pick from. The good ones usually don’t want to put up with obnoxious talk like Sara Palin and Hilary Clinton have to deal with.
Every once in a while we get a good one but the ones I would probably vote for choose to stand in the gap for thier families first.
I get that you’re mad. But what about?
Say what you want about Hillary, her credentials as far as qualification to be President are unquestionable. The only reason she wasn’t on that stage in Denver last week was because she made some really bad mistakes in hiring people and was running against a guy who made no big mistakes.
Kathleen Sebelius is another. Eight years as a state legislator in Kansas, eight as Insurance Commissioner, and she’s midway through her second term as governor. Barring a cabinet appointment in the Obama White House, she’ll run for the Senate in two years, and win there as well.
Sebelius is a woman of impeccable credentials, better at retail politics than anyone I’ve ever seen, and the best political instincts this side of Barack Obama. I’d be very surprised if she was not on the Democratic ticket in 2012 or 2016.
The main advantage she has over Hillary is that she’s really beloved here in fire-engine red Kansas. The hatred from the right that’s stuck too easily to Clinton doesn’t stick to Sebelius. Further she’s a real progressive that looks like a moderate. She is, in short, a Jackie Robinson-type politician who can break down barriers.
Evidently it wasn’t enough. Each ticket had to have a white old man on their team.
I never said anything about Hilary other than I wish the media woud challenge her and Sara Palin’s records and leave their personal lives out of it. Hilary got a lot of criticism. Politicians should be questions about their politics. Sara Palin should be too. But their familes and their gender should be left out of it.
I am mad because familes should be left alone and plitical views should be what we talk about. The length to which this post goes to perpetuate sad and sick comments towards anyone, male or female, has no place in politics!
kellys: At what point is that line between family and policy? For instance, the suggestion that Trig might be Bristol’s son, not Sarah’s, is clearly over it. What about the allegation that Sarah Palin fired her ex-brother-in-law’s supervisor for not firing the ex-BiL?
What about the fact that it certainly appears that she told her sister to fabricate the stories of domestic abuse in order to gain full custody of the children? Or that she fired an aide for dating the estranged wife of one of Todd Palin’s friends?
These are certainly family issues, but they are also issues of her ability to perform in a professional capacity. I don’t think we should set the bar any lower for her due to her gender.
This post says that I don’t think men should be making sick comments about whether or not they would have sex with Sarah Palin.
I think you’re making a little bit of a mistake on raising your expectation of the level of discourse over most of the internet too far above what someone’s scrawled on the inside of a men’s bathroom stall. It’s ugly, it’s rude, and it’s very offensive, which is why in more civilized times it was confined to places where women did not go.
I fail to see how the mistake is mine.
The mistake is that we’re allowing it to be socially acceptable.
I’d hate to think that mainstream media on the Internet is now the men’s room wall.
Have you seen the photos of her in an American Flag bikini by a pool holding and automatic weapon?
For hours I’ve been thinking “holy crap. really? That’s the woman people are willing to vote for?” What does that say about us?
Turns out they are fake. Photoshopped. That’s a form of sexism.
Reduce all women to a bikini clad beer ad.
who the hell is this woman?