“I grew up in a family that didn’t know what glass ceilings were,” she said. “This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the military throughout my career — that the doors continue to open for men and women in uniform.”

Read about her rise to power in a very, very patriarchal profession on MSNBC.com

Salute!

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1st Woman 4 Star

It’s not your grandma’s modesty and “don’t do it.” It’s a hotter, sexier, kind of “don’t do it” that Sarah Palin exemplifies.

Had the sexier version of “don’t do it” and the empoweringly hot message of “make him chase you to the alter and then do it wildly,” been the focus of my community’s “don’t do it” message when I was growing up . . . .

Well, I might not have done it. . .

Read the article about the Sexy Puritan type at Slate.

I’m kind of Sexy {Feminist} Puritan aren’t I?

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Sarah Palin – Sexy Puritan

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John Stewart & Sarah Palin Clips

The Associated Press checked the facts against what Sarah Palin said last night.

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to read it before you watch John McCain’s speech.

Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention.

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Sarah Said a Lot AP Checked her Facts

Sarah Palin had a Downs Syndrome baby last year.

Great CHOICE.

Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is having a baby resulting from a teen pregnancy.

Great CHOICE.

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Palin Mommies

“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?

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Sexually Derogatory Remarks About Sarah Palin, GOP VP

Dear Tracee,

What more do you people want?

She’s literally campaigning FOR her opponent. She’s signing over her delegates. Lots of political losers can barely shake hands with the winner.

There’s a certain number of the population who might vote for John McCain now that Barack Obama didn’t pick a woman VP. Especially if John McCain picks a woman as his VP. But, it won’t be because of Hillary.

I’d be lying if I said I couldn’t understand the appeal of this thinking.

At first I thought that’s crazy, it’s the politics. The healthcare, the economy, the war.

Then I thought, wait.

I no longer believe men – Republican or Democrat – are capable of acting in the best interests of women.

Men will act in their own self-interest.

Case in point, my husband voted for Barack Obama, though clearly Hillary Clinton was in the best interest of me, and my position in this economy and the workplace.

If women were that smart, we’d be a hell of a lot better off than we are today. Hell, if women acted in their own economic self-interest we’d have the brass ring of equality.

I don’t care how nice or good the men are or how much they say the right thing.

Women are entitled to be represented in our own government. We’re half the population. We’re half the economy.

It’s not passe, it’s not cliche to want that or to insist on it.

We should stop believing that Democrats are our only hope – we should start holding Republicans equally accountable to women. No one should get a free pass.

Both of these guys better realize that when they talk about “The Economy”
My economy and theirs are two different animals. My economy isn’t even the same as my own husband’s.

I don’t enjoy economic dependance and I’m fighting against it with my vote this year. Since reading The Feminine Mistake , by Leslie Bennetts, I now understand how “The Market” and “Family Pressure” is pushing women out of the workplace.

I, frankly, think that’s dangerous for me, my daughter, this society and our economy.

One of the best things I heard last night, and I believe it was the president of The White House Project, Marie Wilson who said it,

WOMEN are an underused and under-appreciated and underpaid VITAL resource for the economic future of this country.

If you think we can compete on the world stage in science, computer technology, health care, business, or any other industry without utilizing women as a fundamental resource then I think you don’t understand much about our economy, how it works, or the kinds of world pressures it’s under.

Women must stop acting and voting as if we’re okay with being on the clearance rack - 25% Off.

I want to see BOTH candidates offer me equal pay for equal work, I want to see both candidates realize that I want health care whether I work for a corporation or not, I want to see both candidates acknowledge that children exist and must be cared for by all employees. I want to apply pressure to both because it’s in MY best interest to increase my odds of getting it.

With Hillary, I felt it was a sure thing that these issues would get addressed as a high priority. She’s a woman so she gets how different her economy is from Bill’s.

With Barack, apathy while he deals with what HE feels is a higher priority of importance, is no better than the outright disregard of John McCain.

Some have suggested that it could only be a “twisted sense of loyalty to Hillary” that might make people reconsider their political interests.

This ignores the fact that lots of Republican women were willing to cross the Party Line to vote for themselves and their own personal economies, with a vote for Hillary. But may not be willing to do so for a man.

Let me assure you – my vote will come from a place of 100% loyalty to ME and my daughter’s future.

If Barack Obama wants my vote – he better make some promises to women and families. I’m talking about First 100 Days promises, not platitudes.

If John McCain wants my vote – he better make some promises to women and families.

Black Grandmothers

Image Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, my political loyalties lie 100% in the best interests of me and my daughter’s economics. Momsrising.org - that T-shirt I’m wearing, is applying pressure to both parties to make the economy of women and all families equal to that of men.

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Hillary, Barack, John & Women’s Economy

I’m disappointed in you Barack Obama. No woman.

I guess you didn’t take my email very seriously.

Oh, and I never got the text message.

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Biden’s Not A Very Pretty Woman

by Tracee Sioux

I was anxious to find the Hillary-supporting women who have been saying they will vote for McCain or refrain from voting all together. I have read their arguments on the Internet and they seemed illogical, hysterical, and easily distracted to me – until I met them.

I was shocked out of my britches to find they were wise black grandmothers who have been down this road before and learned their lesson.

(Please note that the above photo is everyone on the Hillary bus I rode, not necessarily Hillary supporters threatenting to boycott Obama.)

These women told me how they fought through the Civil Rights Movement and heard their men say, Help us and when we get there we’ll help you. They did not. They took the power and kept it for themselves.

Same story with the abolition of slavery. These women fought the fight along side their men and their men took the power saying, we’ll pull you along with us.

They did not.

Same story with the vote. Black men took it for themselves and did not help their sisters get it for 100 years.

The women I met were a generation of black women who have raised their children and their grandchildren as the African American family and African American community has fallen apart and their men have left the family or been imprisoned.

They are a generation of women who are none to thrilled to see their men call them, or their daughters, “Ho’s” on the BET.

These black grandmothers have been down this road before and they know what happens at the end of it. They don’t want to keep making the same mistake over and over again and Obama represents the same mistake to them.

Who’s more misogynist than a white man?

A black man, they told me.

Except for some of the Hillary-loving Hispanic ladies I had lunch with who told me, Oh no, it’s the Hispanic man that’s the most sexist.

From their perspective, black men love racial equality, but gender equality is a whole different story. Seems they enjoy having their women doing all the heavy lifting and getting none of the power or glory. Shit rolls down hill and black men like not be the one on the very bottom, some of the women told me.

Some of those black women had shirts made up that said ONLY Hillary would get their vote. There is talk that they will write her in if Obama doesn’t name her VP. They want her to run as an Independent and split the party. Some even say they will vote for McCain.

Let me tell you something, a black woman I was boarding with told me. If the positions were reversed and Obama came this close black folks would march on Washington and FORCE Hillary to name him VP.

She’s probably right.

They also felt that because Barack Obama’s campaign was heavily online, as were his unheard of donations, that they were manipulated and inflated by Republican participation. In other words, they didn’t believe that many Democrats donated $5 to Obama. They believed that the Conservative Media had encouraged Republicans to help Barack Obama (Rush Limbaugh encouraged Republicans to vote in the Democratic Primary) win because they hate Hillary Clinton something fierce.

they said.

They also felt that a LOT of that money actually was the PAC money that Obama said he wasn’t taking – because you can give anonymous donations over the Internet.

That money’s gonna dry up, they said. Those Republicans who gave Obama money are going to give it to their own candidate now. The big business and PACs who gave money are going to give to McCain now.

I should note here that these women were in the minority among their peers. The majority of black women at the convention were Obama supporters.

Also, the majority of Hillary-supporters at the convention were resigned to voting for Obama and not threatening a boycott.

But one Hillary t-shirt said, “I will not fall in line,” and I believe them. Before I met them, I thought they were bluffing.

The Democratic Party was paying attention because nearly every speech was about party unity.

They had us all join hands – Obama delegate and Hillary delegate – to signify our unity.

I thought it was kind of sweet.

“They can have us hold hands all they want to, I ain’t voting for that snake oil salesman and they’re are gonna regret they did when they see who he and his militant wife really is,” one black grandmother declared.

Please God, let them be wrong about Barack Obama. Let his election be a healing moment for the black men and women in this country.

Read about how some young women voted on Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me.

Images Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

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Black Grandmothers

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Hillary Mourning