[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip [quoting Violet at Reclusive Leftist:] Sarah Palin's surprise resignation has brought out the crazy again, and reading through the blogs I'm reminded

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip [quoting Violet at Reclusive Leftist:] Sarah Palin's surprise resignation has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread raunchydog
Judy wrote: Re: Quick -- who is this description really describing ? P.S.: Notice how speedily Barry managed to come up with a distraction from the point of the original post, which concerned the irrational hatred of Palin that generates the ugly falsehoods about her. That isn't anything he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:06 AM, raunchydog wrote: Palin considers herself a feminist, and except for the abortion thing, she's more explicitly feminist than the average American. Which goes right to the heart of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:06 AM, raunchydog wrote: Palin considers herself a feminist, and except for the abortion thing, she's more explicitly feminist than the average American. Which goes right to the heart of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:51 AM, ruthsimplicity wrote: I wonder how popular she would be if she were a man. If it were Todd as governor who ran for public office and said the same things she has said. I doubt he would have gone far. She was picked because she was a woman and religious. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread Jason
their gender is inferior. --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate Which goes right to the heart of the idiocy you and a few others have been pushing here... without a woman's right to choose

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_re...@... wrote: snip Just because arguably she is an authentic feminist doesn't mean that I have to like her or that I can't find her idiotic. Straw man. Nobody said otherwise. I want the best and the brightest. Not that we get it,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@ wrote: I want the best and the brightest. Not that we get it, but that is what I want. Are you suggesting anybody *doesn't* want the best and brightest? I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@ wrote: I want the best and the brightest. Not that we get it, but that is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:06 AM, raunchydog wrote: Palin considers herself a feminist, and except for the abortion thing, she's more explicitly feminist than the average American. Which goes right to the heart of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley These people want a president who is like them, ordinary and absolutely *not* best, brightest, or elite... basically, someone with whom they'd be comfortable drinking beer and talking sports. At least the americans did not get yet another

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Sarah Palin represents one and only one thing to these idiots. She stands for the idea that a woman who has an opinion *must* be listened to, simply because she has an opinion. My goodness, I wonder what triggered

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@ wrote: I want the best and the brightest. Not that we get it, but that is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley These people want a president who is like them, ordinary and absolutely *not* best, brightest, or elite... basically, someone with whom they'd be comfortable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Sarah Palin represents one and only one thing to these idiots. She stands for the idea that a woman who has an opinion *must* be listened to, simply

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: Feminist Receptacle for Hate

2009-07-07 Thread raunchydog
Jason, While I appreciate your awareness of atrocities against women by women, in the broader context of culturally sanctioned misogyny, what drives it? What do you imagine would happen to a woman who refused to circumcise or bind her daughter's feet? The penalty in such primitive societies is