Again with Salon and the sexism:

Pissed about Palin

McCain’s running mate is a Christian Stepford wife in a sexy librarian costume. Women, it’s time to get furious.

Yesterday she was a dominatrix, today she’s a sexxxay librarian. When does she get to be the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, I wonder?

I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, “Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a ’sexy librarian’ costume — as a vice president? That’s a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it.” [...]

As a woman who does not believe what Palin believes, the thought of such an opportunistic anti-female in the White House — in the Cheney chair, no less — is akin to ideological brain rape. What this Republican blowup doll does with her own insides in accord with her own faith is her business. But, like the worst and most terrifying of religious extremists, she seems very comfortable with the idea of imposing her own views on everyone else.

I did not think that women being downgraded to second-class, three-holed chattel would be a pressing concern in my lifetime. I thought it was like polio, or witch burning — an inhumane error that had already been corrected. But after eight years of Republican hegemony, and now the potential ascendance of this sheep in ewe’s clothing, I am so mortally offended I feel like it is really time for women to be angry, hardcore and disgusted again. Not just with old white Christian patriarchs and their hopelessly calcified, religiously condoned misogyny, but also with the self-abnegating, submissive female Uncle Tommies whose ambitions and eagerness to please the powerful males of their tribe are so desperate that they would sell out their sovereignty over their own bodies. And yours too.

Ms. Wilson, allow me to introduce you to Ms. Kettle.

And yeah, I’m furious. Not just at misogynist women who want to curtail my right to choose while celebrating their own choices, but at misogynist women who denigrate women they don’t like - and, by extension, womankind as a whole - with sexist slurs. Palin the blowup doll? Really? Listen, you might not like the woman - dog knows, I don’t - but she’s not a feminized piece of plastic, an object, ferchrissakes. Stop calling Palin’s status of “human” into question - and start attacking her on the issues, already.

Or should I just shut my fuckhole and be glad y’all didn’t Photoshop Palin’s face on a Real Doll?

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