Even though their campaign would love for you to think that she is a feminist idol, and everyone that stands in their way hates all women, Sarah Palin is a sexist hypocrite who happens to be an idiot. Here are but a few of the ways in which Palin is much more sexist than, say, me:
1. I do not believe that young women's lives should be risked by not informing them how to have safe sex in our schools.
1. I do not believe that young women's lives should be risked by not informing them how to have safe sex in our schools.
2. I do not believe in teaching our young people, in public classrooms, creationism - a religious interpretation of the Bible which stresses female subordination to men and a heteronormative, repressed role for women within society.
3. I do not believe in criminalizing a women for choosing to have an abortion (despite my own moral questions on the matter) because I don't think that American women should be forced to pump out babies because of other people's moral and religious beliefs.
3 1/2. ...and I especially find it crucial that women whose lives are in danger or who faced the horrors of rape and incest should not be told that their duty to have kids outweighs their right to make decisions so greatly affecting their lives.
4. I am against a legal code that rewards women for having babies but punishes them for having a job.
5. I am against a tax system that only benefits women if they maintain heteronormative gender roles, i.e. marrying a man and having children, and support a tax code that does not reward childbirth and that is equally fair to women married to other women.
6. I find it reprehensible that someone would try to manipulate women into supporting them based on their gender, as if women are just smart enough to pick out a fellow female but not smart enough to know about the issues. Sarah Palin finds this to be a career.
7. I do not use the idea of a women's liberation movement to progress a decidedly anti-feminist agenda, thereby demeaning women who are fighting for equal rights and social understanding.
8. I also don't use masculinity to criminalize people, as Sarah Palin did in her cries against the "Good Ol' Boys" of Alaskan politics. I think that all GOP Alaskan politicians are equally guilty of being horrible, special-interest-serving slime buckets, regardless of their gender.
9. I did not expect Hillary Clinton to be America's representation of a woman, as Sarah Palin did when she said Clinton's claims of sexism were giving all women a bad name...
10. ...and I also did not call Hillary Clinton a "bitch," at least not to a kindly waitress named Lucille.
And keep in mind that I am an asshole. Just think about how much less sexist good human beings must be than Sarah Palin.
And keep in mind that I am an asshole. Just think about how much less sexist good human beings must be than Sarah Palin.
