http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles/ Feminism and Gender Issues at Princeton University Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles/#comment-61 Anonymous Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:28:00 +0000 http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles#comment-61 Why is there no mention of the expense of Hillary Clinton's pant-suit-of-every-color-under-the-sun-wardrobe? Expense should really be a non-issue. The money was donated to the G.O.P. to use as it sees fit. An attractive wardrobe was deemed fit--and why shouldn't it be? To be in the political eye, one has to dress well. Bottom line. It doesn't matter if you're a populist 'hockey mom' or not. Sarah Palin would have only be mocked more if she wore her shabby Alaskan threads. That's not a gender issue; it's a class issue. Why is there no mention of the expense of Hillary Clinton’s pant-suit-of-every-color-under-the-sun-wardrobe? Expense should really be a non-issue. The money was donated to the G.O.P. to use as it sees fit. An attractive wardrobe was deemed fit–and why shouldn’t it be? To be in the political eye, one has to dress well. Bottom line. It doesn’t matter if you’re a populist ‘hockey mom’ or not. Sarah Palin would have only be mocked more if she wore her shabby Alaskan threads. That’s not a gender issue; it’s a class issue.

]]> http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles/#comment-53 Anonymous Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:22:00 +0000 http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles#comment-53 Great job helping to destroy demeaning male stereotypes about women by caring about WARDROBE so much! Great job helping to destroy demeaning male stereotypes about women by caring about WARDROBE so much!

]]> http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles/#comment-49 Anonymous Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://equalwrites.org/2008/10/26/sarah-palins-wardrobe-troubles#comment-49 Once again we see "feminism" as a wing of the Democratic party, more concerned with political aims than actually promoting the interests of women. I suppose we should also burn at the stake Elaine Lafferty, who is a former Hillary Clinton supporter and former editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, as a traitor to her gender. After all, if she supports a Republican, she can't possible be a "real womyn."</></>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/</></>"It's difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin's “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS's Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I'm agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.</></>......</></>Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I'd heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is." Once again we see “feminism” as a wing of the Democratic party, more concerned with political aims than actually promoting the interests of women. I suppose we should also burn at the stake Elaine Lafferty, who is a former Hillary Clinton supporter and former editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, as a traitor to her gender. After all, if she supports a Republican, she can’t possible be a “real womyn.”http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/“It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.……Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.”

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