Women on Having It All
Can women have it all? Ah, the age-old question.
Mrs Palin may be a feminist (you can hear, by their silence, old leftie feminists grappling with the concept of a “Feminist for Life” anti-abortionist, the group that Mrs Palin belongs to) but there is little feminine about her. She may be the supermum who can “just put down the BlackBerry and pick up the breast pump”, as she put it - but there’s nothing maternal in flinging a vulnerable teenage daughter at the flashlights of the world. It’s the sort of self-interested decision a softer “mom” would not make.
Evidently a woman can have it all and stay a woman, but doing so nullifies her womanhood. Further on:
She is such a mass of contradictions, that alone may qualify Mrs Palin as all woman after all.
Oh that’s good. Since evidently her, ah, sex doesn’t.
Nothing like Mrs Palin has, could ever, be seen in the British political system. She turns liberals into conservatives and conservatives into feminists. Stand back, Mr Obama, a new character is storming the ratings.
How Hillary Clinton, all safe lines and patronising empathy, must be hating it. How fast Michelle Obama must be recalibrating her soft little tales about baking cookies and enjoying The Brady Bunch. Mrs Palin would eat Carol Brady for breakfast, and still have space for some moose stew. Hell, yes.
Okay that made me laugh.
So, yeah. This is going to be entertaining. And we thought the prospects of the Mormon Mitt Romney was going to send them out with the vapours.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
It’s a strangely twisted commentary, reflecting a twisted-up rationale I guess, because there’s absolutely nothing feminine suggested, directed or instructed in the Feminist Doctrine — so the logic she uses = Fail. And Hillary Clinton as “safe lines and patronising empathy” - she must have been watching a different movie on the Airplane, or had too many in-flight martinis.