Your self indulgence proves nothing. You were not polled by me. I don't poll online because most people online are liars. LOLOLOLOL
<yawn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "wncs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin Maybe I can clarify a few things. I do not hate Sarah Palin. However, I do not think she is the best choice for VP of this nation. Those are two completely separate things. Secondly, the fact that I do not think she would make a good VP has nothing to do with "me" because I don't fit any of those criteria: a) I'm not too liberal to function... I'm middle of the road b) I'm not fat c) I'm not ugly Sorry to disprove your assertion, but I don't hate Palin, and the fact that she won't make a good VP has nothing to do with me and everything to do with her. On Oct 3, 7:27 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My personal polling indicates the women who hate Palin are either: > > a) Too liberal to function > b) Fat > c) Ugly > d) All of the above > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Travis > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:20 AM > Subject: Re: Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin > > 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 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," you're > in a whole mess of trouble. If the Pakistani head-of-state more or less > hits on her, 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 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. > > a.. Find this article at: > b..http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846832,00.html- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
