I am glad I have no knowledge of my ex's whereabouts. and haven't for 30 years. Excellent article. thanks.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin By Belinda Luscombe > > Some polls are > suggesting<http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1846443,00.html>that > after gaining an initial bump, McCain's campaign is being hobbled by > Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy. The voters who are deserting her > fastest, some of whom are even calling on her to withdraw, are mostly women. > > Ah, women, the consistently, tragically underestimated constituency. What > the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be > finding out the hard way, I learned at my very academic, well-regarded > all-girls high school: that is never to discount the ability of women to > open a robust, committed, well-thought-out vat of hatred for another girl. > > Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it > too. When women get their hate on, they don't just dislike, or find disfavor > with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe — deeply, richly, > sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in > more or less the same way. > > When men disagree, the steps to resolution are reasonably clear and > unsophisticated. Acts of physical violence are visited upon one another's > person or property, and the whole thing blows over. Women? Nu-unh. We savor > the discord. We draw it out. We share our contempt with our friends, like a > useful stock tip, or really good salsa. And then we all go hate together: a > mutually encouraging group activity for when the book group gets quiet. > > The hatred women have for Sarah Palin, and others had for Hillary before > her, is not necessarily about politics. Anybody can run the numbers on how > many people Palin's pro-life, pro-gun, socially conservative policies will > seduce and how many they will alienate. Rather, the test that the McCain > campaign failed to put her through was the Abbotsleigh Ladies College test. > (Named after my high school. Go, green and gold!). It's a simple three-point > pass-fail exam: Will the other girls like her? > > Here's why Palin doesn't make the grade: > > 1. She's too pretty. This is very bad news. At school, pretty girls tend > to be liked only by other pretty girls. The rest of us, whose looks hover > somewhere around underwhelming, resent them and whisper archly of their > "unearned attention." So, if everyone calls your candidate > "hot<http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1838041,00.html>," > you're in a whole mess of trouble. If the Pakistani head-of-state more or > less hits on her <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHU_gRWFV2g>, well, yes, > she'll get a sympathy vote, but we're in Dukakis-in-the-tank territory. It's > an admiration vaporizer. (Of course a candidate can't be too ugly, or it > will scare the men, who are clearly shallow as a gender.) > > 2. She's too confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem > issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman > — from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth — > can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and > you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's > about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until > 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky. > > 3. She could embarrass us. History is not on Palin's side. Every time a > woman gets a plum job, be she Hewlett-Packard's ex-boss, Carly Fiorina, or > CBS's Katie Couric, there's always that whispery fear that people will think > she got the job just because she's a woman. So if things don't go well — and > a couple of YouTube clips <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2kjFn4s4sU&;>have > suggested that they're certainly not going well for Palin — women are > the first to turn on her for making it harder for the rest of us to louse up > at work. > > The fact of the matter is once a female decides it's over with another > female, it's like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, > every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the > moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay for > their own rape test kits. > > I know, I know. With all this extra baggage a female candidate has to bear, > the chances of finding a woman whom other women won't hate seem skinnier > than last year's jeans. But don't despair, if all else fails, we could just > do what we always do and just vote in some guy. It's worked so well for us > in the past. > > > > - Find this article at: > - http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846832,00.html > > * > > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
