Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

To say that you are voting for Palin/ McCain as a disappointed Hillary supporter is about as stpid as you can be. This woman is as different from Hillary as Obama is from McCain. There is no way as a Democrat, I could justify voting for McCain if Hillary had won because he is a man. Martin Luther King once stated " Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." To all you voters who can consider " CHANGE" to be the McCain message because Palin is on the ticket, this quote is profoundly appropriate.

This is rather shrill stuff from you Ms Quindlen and I can't help but see a bitter irony here. Once upon a time Doctor Frankenstein made a monster and then couldn't control it. The same can be said for the women's movement and Gov Palin. The success of the women's movement created Gov Palin and now that she opposes the single issue that seems to matter to them, abortion rights, they obviously believe that she must be stopped at all costs before she despoils the countryside, blights the crop and, worst of all, challenges the notion that not all women walk in lock step together on the question of abortion. Poor Anna, Gov Palin is already out the door of the castle, across the drawbridge and away into the night and you might want to reflect that Doctor Frankenstein, like you, never did manage to stop his monster.

Democrats have been now put in the position of having to trash an all-American working mother. It approach is, if you cannot win in the realm of ideas, then destroy the source of the ideas. Much of the Democrat hatred for Palin has its source in her honest objection to abortion. But when it was revealed Obama argued for and voted for infanticide, no Democrat or media concern was heard.

The real story is, the Feminist Movement found who the real feminists are in America. It is those who look like Palin. Those women strong enough to pull the plow that bears a large family and a professional career too. It was never an either/or proposition. Men look at Palin and see their mothers.

Not so sudden, Ms. Quindlen. It was a Republican who introduced the 19th. Amendment (Suffrage) in the US Senate. It was President Ford who maneuvered the Equal Rights Amendment for a vote where it was being stalled by the Democrat controlled Congress.
ERA faied by 3 states. It was the Democrat controlled state House in which prevented Florida from ratuying
it, for one.
So the GOP has sided with women often before. And like Jim Crow, Joe Sexist was a Democrat.

I thought feminism was an effort to ultimately allow woman to be the equals of men and to be and/or do anything they were able to within the bounds of legality. Why all the upset? Is the right to abortion on demand the only one that matters? This woman is poised for a breakthrough that will benefit all women regardless of their ideology. The Democrats have done for women what Ernest Borgnine did for tap dancing.

"Right to Choose"? "Control over a woman's reproductive organs"? Did the government choose for her to have sex? Did the government make her pregnant? No! She chose to have sex! That was her right to choose right there! And she chose to have sex! What did she think was going to happen? That's what happens when you have sex! Sometimes even with contraceptives! You get pregnant! It's not the government's fault, it's not the baby's fault, so the government has to step in and protect the rights of the baby. Even in cases of rape, tragic though that may be, it's not the baby's fault. If you can't stand to look at the result of that rape, put the baby up for adoption, don't kill it. The only time for an abortion is when it is for the mother's own safety.

Imagine the howls of rage from the right if the Obama campaign attempted to keep critics and inquisitors at bay by calling them racist.

So when is Palin going to answer some of these questions directly? I've seen the men from the McCain campaign talking about how they'll let her go out and be interviewed when THEY decide she will. Talk about sexist!

"membership in the PTA as evidence of executive experience"

Keep your powder dry, lady, when you try to make a point.

When your first statement is patently ridiculous...why should
anyone listen?

governor palin is new we dont konw anything about her besides what the campaign tells the media she needs to show she can take tough questions

How can anyone say Palin and feminist in the same sentence, unless the word oxymoron is also involved. This political entity wants to take away the basic right to govern our own bodies away from us and you, another woman, dare call her a feminist? Are you stupid or unobservant?

I thought the women's movement was FOR women in power. Also, when reminding us how little experience Palin has, Obama had only been a senator since January 2005 but you fail to mention that lack of experience on his part. And he was never a governor. So how does that give him the qualifications to be president? This newsweek article is extremely disappointing.

the fact is governor palin has only two years of experience she is new on the national stage we are hearing alot of rhetoric about her being tough based on a speech so far camp mccain is acting like shes a victim

When will it every be noted that prior to conception, a woman has choices: She can have sex with someone who has no committment to her or not. Once pregnant, she has the choice to have the baby and raise it or give it up for adoption. Abortion does not take away a woman's right to choose. It takes away the right to choose whether a baby lives or not. And assuming half those fetuses are female...."choice" doesn't give that next female much choice, does it?

For 40 years the press has called conservative and middle of the road Americans sexist and against people of color. They did this despite the evidence (Sandra J. O'Conner, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Bobby Jindal). Voting for the McCain/Palin ticket is just another chance to prove the press wrong. What conservative and middle of the road Americans are against is lawyers and social engineers. Once again, the Dems are running lawyers against non-lawyers. Don't blame America when the one annointed by the press does a belly flop in November.

As you well know, Palin cited her membership in the PTA to describe how she came into politics, not as evidence of executive experience.

If you haven't bothered to be accurate, why should we believe you have bothered to be thoughtful or fair?

Another women who doesn't get it. Palin's appeal is her accomplishment without having to use sexism as an excuse for failure. She has earned her place through hard work and good ideas.

Ms. Quindlen, Keep doing what you're doing. You and others like you are helping the Rep. cause more than you know! It appears you are jealous of Mrs. Palin and others like her that can do it all. They did not put themselves first above all others to climb to the top. They balanced family and career and did well at both. Oh and she gives lots of credit to her man which is no no in your circles. I thought you were in favor of womens rights or is it liberal womens rights?