....But I can SORT OF spin the talking points--as long as I am not asked a direct question.
Oh! And I DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!!"
Thanks to my friend, Nate, who made us all roll on the floor laughing (though we could have just as easily wept, I suppose,) at Ms. Palin's ridiculously scant qualifications.
I still can't believe it.
In the spirit of naming everyday sexism (internalized and otherwise), here are a couple things I could really just do without:
1. Weakening one's (often legitimate) critique(s) of Sarah Palin, by offering some gender-based slur or stereotype to "bring it home" with more zest or emphasis.
Yes, I GET IT, she sucks.
There is NO NEED to belittle all women in order to make your point.
Her SUCKING has zero to do with the fact that she has a vagina, and everything to do with the fact that she is an anti-woman, talking-head TV candidate who chanced into a role that she is (most likely) incapable of adequately filling. (Aren't we just finishing eight LONG years of this sort of thing? Can ANYBODY appear Presidential with the right make-up and spin machines behind them?!?!?) When November comes, MY GOD, I hope enough of us will have learned that lesson.
2. Not really sexism, but irritating nonetheless:
What's WITH you conservatives--a la Phyllis Schlafly--who've screeched "shut up and stay home" to women 'til your voices were hoarse, suddenly being cool with a woman at the helm?
Dude, where's the pyre for SP?!?
(You folks always seem to have one at the ready, after all.)
Seriously, Sarah is EVERYTHING you've despised and railed against for the entire duration of the womens' movement. But now that team McCain has a chance in hell, somehow it doesn't matter that she spits in the face of much that you hold so dear?!?
She IS the lipstick, McCain is the pig.
To me this stinks of desperation--to the fact that you'll do anything, ANYTHING to WIN.
Tut tut. I smell the blood of a hypocrite. Family Values? Right.
Via: Feministing
This is what I'm going to be for Halloween. 
Of course, you can't go as ONE of the angels, there is no "angel" in the singular. That would be odd--because then you'd just be a 70's looking chick, and that's just not very exciting. So Anna and Nico are bringing the other two back to life. (this was all Anna's idea in the first place) If done right, I think it will be really fun. I'm talking ridiculously exaggerated angel action--I'm talking MASSIVELY HUGE hair.
This is all contingent on finding the right wigs. They have to be real hair because I don't think you can heat-style the cheap synthetic ones--and I really think that the hair is about 80% of the costume.
And WOW! Wigs are FUN! If you've never put one on I highly recommend it! Somehow they allow the wearer to adopt a new personality. Do it and you'll see what I mean. It's liberating!
You're not gonna court Hillary's peeps with Sarah Palin, Mr. McCain.
You don't appear revolutionary--you appear reckless.
Also, I would gladly take my own eye out with a spoon if it meant that I never had to hear the word "Maverick" ever again.
