ROFL!!! First hand experience Woody? You woke up a wise man today. All of that New Age chanting and aromatherapy must be working for you. LOL
CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hollywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin mark, I'd rather have an entire squad of CIA hit-men after me that ONE really pissed-off woman. On Oct 3, 5:18 am, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a look into the female mind. it's kinda scary in there. > > On Oct 3, 6:01 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
