Comments on: Sexually Derogatory Remarks About Sarah Palin, GOP VP

By: tavarae

tavarae — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:59:10 +0000

who the hell is this woman?

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:43:17 +0000

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.

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:38:05 +0000

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.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:32:28 +0000

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.

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:25:51 +0000

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.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:09:19 +0000

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.

By: kellys

kellys — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:04 +0000

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!

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:53:16 +0000

Evidently it wasn’t enough. Each ticket had to have a white old man on their team.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:22:05 +0000

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.

By: Tracee Sioux

Tracee Sioux — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:49:42 +0000

I get that you’re mad. But what about?