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Kids play chess in Central Park
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milennial leverage: Vote for Obama or I might not help you w Tivo or else (VIDEO)
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Daily Epigram: a little more love
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Camille Paglia's own Palin-like reasoning on Palin
"The question that keeps popping up for me is whether Palin, who was born in Idaho, could possibly be part Native American (as we know her husband is), which sometimes seems suggested by her strong facial contours. I have felt that same extraordinary energy and hyper-alertness billowing out from other women with Native American ancestry [...]
"The question that keeps popping up for me is whether Palin, who was born in Idaho, could possibly be part Native American (as we know her husband is), which sometimes seems suggested by her strong facial contours. I have felt that same extraordinary energy and hyper-alertness billowing out from other women with Native American ancestry — including two overpowering celebrity icons with whom I have worked."
I am amazed at how, in one sentence, Paglia turns her admiration for Palin into some kind of exoticized fetishism of Native American women (who apparently all have "extraordinary energy" and that also excited bt very different "hyper-alertness" celebrity worship and how great she, Paglia, is. �
For the record, Palin doesn't seem to�have done much�in terms of action to support Natives in Alaska. Amazing how many descendants of immigrants want to focus on who is a "real" American while forgetting the only people who can call this an ancestral home.�
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Not going to the back of the bus / back in the closet
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1827871374/bctid1842741065 Here is Donna Brazile testifying about race and what's been going on in the election.� Man I want LGBT folks and our allies to say the same thing. I am not going to give up my marriage.� I am not going back in the closet. I am not going to accept second class status because it makes [...]
Here is Donna Brazile testifying about race and what's been going on in the election.�
Man I want LGBT folks and our allies to say the same thing. I am not going to give up my marriage.�
I am not going back in the closet. I am not going to accept second class status because it makes someone else feel better.
And we are | | close to the CA Constitution being amended to discriminate against us. Just us. At least for now.
Stand up queerfolk. Stand up people who believe in equality and refuse to sit at the back of the bus.
Marriage is a right for everyone. Vote no on 8.
Tell it Donna.
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Palin and sexism. Cont'd.
A reader writes: If it weren't for sexism, Palin would not have been chosen. If it weren't for sexism, she would be humiliated in a debate, rather than coddled. The sexism meme is tired, boring and hypocritical….. Of course Palin benefits enormously for sexism. Any "mean girl" depends upon it for her power.� But Palin wouldn't be able [...]
A reader writes:
If it weren't for sexism, Palin would not have been chosen. If it weren't for sexism, she would be humiliated in a debate, rather than coddled. The sexism meme is tired, boring and hypocritical…..
But Palin wouldn't be able to take advantage of it if it weren't floating out in the general culture.�
It would be more comfortable to just line up a list of what's ridiculous and frightening about Palin and the Republican campaign but that's been done elsewhere very well. It's less comfortable to point out the part of her phenomenon that crosses party lines, although I don't belong to a party. Hey, I think she has a great ass too. And probably more audiences will laugh at a comment I make like that than will laugh at something that cuts deeply at sexism. One of the greatest gifts of this moment is that people are laughing at sexism. That is an entirely new thing.
That's because our lives will look very different if women are seen for more than their appearance, especially if women see themselves as more than their appearance.
I've not used the term "sexism" much in the past 15 years (but man I used it an awful lot before then) as I came to see sexism as the gender tip of plain ol' dehumanization you betcha.
There are a many reasons to be disturbed by Palin's presence on the Republican ticket. But it's just as important to observe the soup of dehumanizing tendencies she's swimming in. I I've been an Obama supporter for quite a while, but I still saw the sexist crap thrown at Hillary and named it as such. �
Post debate, my early impression remains that Palin is like�Eve Harrington��and�is underestimated at our peril. Unless our culture makes a big shift in the next 4 years and I dearly hope it will, along with an Obama Presidency, I think Palin has a good chance at being President. Not just because of what's she's willing to do and not do, but because of what kind of general soup we're all content to swim in.
Sexism isn't a meme. It's one piece of not genuinely seeing others or ones self. We've barely scratched the surface of what's beneath. �
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