The Washington Post’s War On Women And Sarah Palin
Hmm. Freelance writer and Washington Post contributor to their "She the People" feature Diana Reese drips with condescension all over Sarah Palin.
What to make of this, other than, it's not okay to be sexist but it's Sarah Palin, so I will be?
"When Palin took to the makeshift stage in the middle of a Missouri farm field, she was dressed more for the part of Hollywood celebrity than serious politician. I know someone’s going to remind me that just last week, I said it was sexist to focus on the wardrobes of women in politics. But it was hard for me to take Palin seriously dressed as she was."
I thought all that "war on women" nonsense was a GOP deal? My impression of what Reese is actually saying here is, it's not okay to dump on women in politics unless, God forbid, you know, they're a woman!! Femininity, or, … good heavens, sexuality ist strictly verboten!!
This is why I contend that the real war on women originates on the left. Outside of the entertainment field, to qualify for protected status on the left, a woman needs to leave behind those things that might make her appear uniquely feminine to a man.
If you want to shoot for attractive, let alone sensual, you'll have a better go of it as a gay male, than you will a woman today under the left's guidelines for political correctness.
But as for what one might call a real woman, one a man might find himself attracted to, or even want to spend some time with, in the mind of those on the left today, they can't possibly be worth taking seriously.
So, who is actually waging war on women in American society when it comes right down to it? As far as I'm concerned, it's the left and liberals and always has been.
Politicians don't always have to be strange bedfellows, do they? heh!
First, her shoes: Five-inch wedges. Her black capris weren’t quite skin-tight but tight enough, and her t-shirt with its Superman logo (a Steelman campaign shirt emblazoned with “Our freedom. Our fight.”) emphasized her figure. She never once removed her oversized sunglasses.
I’m sorry, but I’d like my minister, my doctor and yes, my politicians, to look and dress for their parts.
Once Palin spoke, I couldn’t help but think she sometimes sounds like a caricature of herself. Perhaps it’s her unique manner of speaking or her overuse of certain phrases.
She looks more like Snooki every day. In 5 years she’ll be hawking reverse mortgages.
It’s always fascinating to listen in on what wingnuts tell themselves in their deranged echo-chamber. So patently clueless.
Why why wasn’t Snowbilly Snooki given a prime speaking spot at the Teabilly convention?
You liberal chicks kill me! I bet you are all fat and ugly and your husbands are out paying to do a women like Palin to take their minds off the fact that they have to come home to you morbidly obese pigs that you are!!!!
Uh…just wondering if the WaPo’s Diana Reese would care to post a picture of herself wearing low-rise jeans & a tight T-shirt of the type which accentuates Sarah Palin’s slender figure so well?
Great article as usual Dan.
What do these people think? It’s hot as hell outside, and BRIGHT. She never took her sunshades off when she was here in Texas stumping for Ted Cruz either. Hell, everyone wears shades down here in the bright sun, especially us folks who are nearsighted and effected by intense light.
As for her attire, again, it was HOT, and after speaking she and Sarah Steelman served BBQ to a couple 1000 supporters. You don’t do that in Dior or Oscar de la Renta!
Never mind Sarah Palin is the most influential politician in America these old biddies are upset that she is an attractive woman and they most definitely are not.
“Never mind Sarah Palin is the most influential politician in America ….”
Hahahaha!
Ah, delusion ….
The November tears will be so sweet.
Hey Anglo-Saxon. Just to be on the safe side you should pre-plan an intervention with a suicide prevention service on election night. Who knows. You may be guessing wrongly and we wouldn’t want to see you do something terrible.
Don’t you just love the way the liberal left cannot come up with anything new when it comes to Sarah Palin? They just regurgitate the same old insults. I know that the “soothing” voice of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is probably more reminicent of their mother’s voice not to mention that hair that looks like she took an egg beater to it rather than a brush is probably what they go home to every day and are therefore not used to seeing a woman that takes care of herself, ergo all the insults.
What can you expect? I was once told by a “progressive” that the reason the country was in the state it was in was because people like me got manicures. I told her that I would stand down wind from her from now on since grroming seemed to be foreign to her and her associates.
Wait, I thought the elite class had a fit over Palin dressing in really sharp upscale attire during the McCain campaign. I guess that was yester-minute. Today-minute is different.
Diana Reese is another leftwing hypocrite. If Angelina Jolie, or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz had been attired like Sarah Palin, Reese never would have written the article. And as far as I am concerned, Reese knows exactly what she can do with her condescending left wing tripe.