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Statements About Sarah Palin That Enrage Me Regardless of Political Leanings, by Me, age 19 and 5/6

"Yeah, she was governor of all five people in Alaska!" (Classmate, Directing II. In re: a woman quoted in the New York Times as hailing her twenty months as governor as more experienced than Obama.)

"She's a cunt." (Other classmate, Feminist Lit class. In re: Palin in general.)

. . . Wow, ten and a half hours later that second one still makes me want to punch something for about three different reasons.

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*bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinks*

I've seen comparisons of people done with Alaska re: cities in America. Not exactly sure of the relevance of them, but, *blinks*

And the second...yeah, I'm with you on the punching through walls.

Yeah. Population-wise, my joke has always been that Alaska has barely enough people to qualify for a senator (if I'm remembering my gov't class correctly, you get one sen. for every 650,000 people; AK has about 650,000). And geography-wise, Alaska is three times the size of France and something like a quarter the size of the entire contiguous US.

And politics-wise, we have a fairly unique system of government that deals with totally unique issues in the US. We also have a shit-ton of corruption -- in both parties. The fact that we have few people is immaterial to both those facts.

Rrrrrr. As for "cunt," I am all for reclaiming the word, but using it in a derogatory, dismissive, knee-jerk fashion towards a woman IS NOT RECLAMATION.

You're thinking house reps. States get two senators regardless of populations, but representatives are by population. :)

Oh! You're right. Darnit. I swear I got an A in Government. >.>

While, frankly, I do think the population of the place someone serves as the executive government official of is relevant to that person's claim to experience, ... yeah. I've heard too many insults to Alaska itself in the process, and I'm afraid that Palin inspires a special kind of dislike among liberals as she brings up a lot resentment from the last eight years, let alone the last nine months.

I'm just hoping the people actually representing the Democrats don't display that kind of irrational hatred. It's often sexist, and completely distracts from what are becoming numerous real issues that can be brought up concerning Palin's candidacy.

Yeah -- although like I said above, I think that governing in Alaska is a unique challenge. But again, yeah -- there are real issues concerning her candidacy, like the fact that she has no freaking foreign policy experience*, or the fact that McCain's staff didn't start vetting her until after she was chosen, or . . .

You know all this. >( The whole thing just makes me want to scream.

*Someone asked me if I could tell them about her voting record, and I kind of stared at them and said "She doesn't, um, have a voting record. As such. You know?"

That was said in your Feminist Lit Class??! What was the response?!

But as for the Alaska comment, well, the "she has more experience" thing is such a crock that I don't even care if I'm made fun of in the process. Urgh.

Well, as it was before class:

"Okay, the Alaskan is leaving the conversation right now if it's going down that route."

The actual discussion of her in class was still heated, but actually rather balanced in terms of people arguing that she could be taking feminist actions -- say, governing while raising five kids -- and not be feminist -- say, attempting to pass legislation about reproductive rights that takes them away (although the whole ideas of feminist = pro-choice and feminist = liberal were also called into question).

"She's a cunt."

...Golly, other classmate, your well-worded and nonbiased summation really has me convinced.

(You know I've been on the internet too long when I want to say "con crit, don't flame". >_>)

(*snort*)

I mean, I expect thoughtless commentary from that classmate, but I really expected better than that from her.

Okay, see, I don't like her, her politics, and many decisions she's made. But, uh. Those are completely fucking ridiculous statements, and kinda deserve a punch in the face.

Yep, yep, yep, and yep.

Although I actually don't mind her in herself; I'm seriously considering sending her some kind of note saying "Hey, if you're in Pittsburgh since we're a battleground state 'n' all, I'd love to get coffee with a real Alaskan."

And, y'know, hope that I could then keep the conversation from ever cycling around to the "I find your social legislation sickening and reprehensible" thing.

...♥.

I don't know, you're just kind of awesome right now, okay?

(PS: What's that picture in your icon and why do I find it familiar?)

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