In a Vanity Fair article by Michael Gross we get a picture of Palin being a terrible, detached mother who puts career ahead of family. I'm not saying this is a false depiction of Palin. But it is just another example of how the media (male and female counterparts) talk about female politicians. The focus should be on policy and agenda, and political intergrity; isn't that what we discuss when we refer to male politicians? The only time we depart from that is when the boys are caught pants down, ass out, with hookers, young boys or gays. As much as most of US (strong, smart, decent, liberal-minded women) detest the fact that Palin is a public representative for women (because she's an idiot and her politics are absurd, conservative to fault, and out date) that does not mean we agree that she should be judged by how she looks, the clothes she wears, or if she spends enough time with her family. She is in the public eye as a politician and that is how she should be judged: as a good (if that can even be an option) or bad politician. So please lets go back to lampooning her for the idiotic things that she spews, lets judge her on her laughable sense of world issues, events and geography....We stand behind her to defend her right to a career in a male dominated industry and to be treated equally in the career. So she spends less time with her kids than some other moms do, that is her decision; I'm sure Clinton or Bush didn't exactly spend hours of quality time with their kids (well maybe Bush, he had nothing better to, though it might have cut into his golf time...) and no one accused them of being bad fathers. What if we changed it to bad parent??? And then applied the moniker to politicians on both side of the gender divide?? What a concept...But please stop forcing me to defend Sarah Palin, I beg you.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/03/will-feminists-rally-around-sarah-palin.html
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