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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

That was good, I'll have to read the entire article later.  I hope she 
mentioned somehwere in the article that the conglomerate MSM had taken the 
Christtian right's place in chastising and belittling a woman for all of the 
reasons she just mentioned that the rightists formerly did in the past 
......bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Sarah Palin and feminism
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 8:00 AM
> A good article in The Nation. The author, Katha Pollitt
> isn't a big fan of 
> Palin, but the article is more about the changes that Palin
> forced on the 
> Republican party. She's a real person, with real family
> problems, and if 
> they wanted to support her, they had to accept that.
> 
> >From the article:
> Palin's presence on the Republican ticket forced
> family-values conservatives 
> to give public support to working mothers, equal marriages,
> pregnant teens 
> and their much-maligned parents. Talk-show frothers,
> Christian zealots and 
> professional antifeminists--Rush Limbaugh and Phyllis
> Schlafly--insisted 
> that a mother of five, including a
> "special-needs" newborn, could perfectly 
> well manage governing a state (a really big state, as we
> were frequently 
> reminded), while simultaneously running for veep and, who
> knows, 
> field-dressing a moose. No one said she belonged at home.
> No one said she 
> was neglecting her husband or failing to be appropriately
> submissive to him. 
> No one blamed her for 17-year-old Bristol's
> out-of-wedlock pregnancy or 
> hard-partying high-school-dropout boyfriend. No one even
> wondered out loud 
> why Bristol wasn't getting married before the baby
> arrived. All these things 
> have officially morphed from sins to
> "challenges," just part of normal 
> family life. No matter how strategic this newfound
> broadmindedness is, it 
> will not be easy to row away from it. Thanks to Sarah,
> ladies, we can do 
> just about anything we want as long as we don't have an
> abortion.
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081124/pollitt
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth 
> 
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