As I checked my gmail a few weeks ago, I didn’t immediately delete a Facebook email inviting me to join yet another group. This was one group I couldn’t pass up. With a click of the mouse, I was a member of “Intelligent Women Against Sarah Palin.”
Whoops, guess I let the cat out of the bag with that one. I am a liberal woman on a college campus who does not appreciate getting her intelligence insulted by septuagenarian presidential candidates.
As I did my daily perusal of slate.com, I came across a September 2nd piece on Sarah Palin. Featured on the XX Factor, a blog by women about how we fit into the world today, this particular post was entitled, “Questions for a Superhuman Mom.”
The blog focuses in on what I feel is and will always be one of the central issues of being a woman: what makes someone a “good” woman.
Sarah Palin’s answer is implied by her deliberate choice to paint herself as a “hockey mom:” in order to be a good woman, a woman has to be a mother.
Palin has been heralded far and wide about her choice to keep her baby even after prenatal tests revealed that the child had Down Syndrome. She has been criticized and lauded for her help in her 17 year old daughter’s decision to keep her baby and to marry its father. Although Daily Show bits on these topics make me laugh, they are not what concerns me about Sarah Palin.
Instead, I agree with Slate’s position that “feminism, to the GOP, appears to mean never having to say you’re exhausted.” This nouveau version of feminism scares me.
Life sometimes shows us how cyclical it truly is. However, in the paraphrased words of George Santayana, those who haven’t read The Feminine Mystique are condemned to live in a world without knowledge of its meaning. Sarah Palin seems to be trying to steer women clear of Betty Friedan and towards Betty Crocker.
I know that women will sympathize with the non-child care usin’, five children raisin’ ways of Sarah Palin. To them, I pose this question: “How does her mommy cred prepare her for vice presidential duties?” When I am given a believable answer to this question, that’s when I’ll vote for Sarah Palin.
Source: Slate Magazine
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