You want sexism? Here it is
Oct. 3rd, 2008 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenMy former roommate and I talked about how we're both watching ourselves to see if we let the media get away with sexist language about Sarah Palin more than we did with Hillary Clinton. Sexism is sexism, it shouldn't matter that I think the latest target of it has all the depth of ditchwater. I'm proud to say that I have taken exception to the language and treatment used to address/discuss Sarah Palin.
Number Fucking One Peeve THAT HAS TO STOP:
Her performance — feisty and spirited — also might have heartened conservatives, many of whom had gone from ecstasy to despair in the period from when she was named until this week.
If I hear Governor Shoots-a-Fucker called "feisty" one more goddamned time, I am going to shoot a fucker.
No, seriously, SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT SHIT ALREADY. You know what "feisty" is code for? Someone who is overconfident and underprepared successfully bullying her--yes, her--way around with such chutzpah people let her--yes, only her--get away with it. And this is only about the twenty billionth time I've heard Sarah Palin called feisty. It's not compliment. It means "upstart" as much as it means "capable." You don't call men feisty, you call them dogmatic--also not a compliment, usually.
The word "feisty" is the only word they can think of any more because they have nothing great or individual to say about her. She's a goddamned caricature, and they know it. But because she's some fragile fucking flower, we can't be mean to her. That? IS ALSO SEXISM. She botched a lot of things in the debate and only seems to have done well because the bar was set so low for her that a corpse might have succeeded. Feisty, indeed, those corpses dontcha know. (Ugh, her and her "folksy" speech.)
And "spirited"? What, she's a horse? Fuck off and die already with this language.
Number Fucking One Peeve THAT HAS TO STOP:
Her performance — feisty and spirited — also might have heartened conservatives, many of whom had gone from ecstasy to despair in the period from when she was named until this week.
If I hear Governor Shoots-a-Fucker called "feisty" one more goddamned time, I am going to shoot a fucker.
No, seriously, SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT SHIT ALREADY. You know what "feisty" is code for? Someone who is overconfident and underprepared successfully bullying her--yes, her--way around with such chutzpah people let her--yes, only her--get away with it. And this is only about the twenty billionth time I've heard Sarah Palin called feisty. It's not compliment. It means "upstart" as much as it means "capable." You don't call men feisty, you call them dogmatic--also not a compliment, usually.
The word "feisty" is the only word they can think of any more because they have nothing great or individual to say about her. She's a goddamned caricature, and they know it. But because she's some fragile fucking flower, we can't be mean to her. That? IS ALSO SEXISM. She botched a lot of things in the debate and only seems to have done well because the bar was set so low for her that a corpse might have succeeded. Feisty, indeed, those corpses dontcha know. (Ugh, her and her "folksy" speech.)
And "spirited"? What, she's a horse? Fuck off and die already with this language.
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Date: 2008-10-04 04:13 am (UTC)Though I have to say, the only real problem I see with their characterization is its redundancy. (Feisty is sprited!) Of course male politicians aren't characterized as feisty, because they aren't. (America isn't ready to elect someone that flamboyant.)
Hmm, actually if I Google "feisty politician", the articles on the first page of hits include articles about two women (one is Palin) and three men (one is Teddy Roosevelt).
But hey, if you ever think they're all being too soft on her, just watch Jack Cafferty's take on her (perhaps play the last 30 seconds a few times over) and take a deep breath. You'll feel better (so long as you remember that they're on track to lose.)