Aug
30

Sarah Palin is Not a Feminist

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Sarah Palin I woke up yesterday and by the time I was awake for 11 minutes I felt like I had been punched in the gut several times after reading on several conservative blogs how Sarah Palin, McCain’s VP pick, is such a great feminist role model. After doing some research on this woman whom I’ve never even heard of before it became abundantly clear–Not only is Sarah Palin not a feminist, she is as anti-woman as Bush and McCain combined. That is the reason why McCain picked her; not because she is a woman and he wanted to be underhanded (which he totally did,) but because she’s a Republican, conservative man who just happens to be in a woman’s body.

Feminism means to stand up for human rights; it means to stand up for equality and the freedoms and liberties of people and Sarah Palin is disgustingly right wing, anti-choice and has no record of representing women’s interests; though her record in general is quite minuscule.

So here are some things you should know about Sarah Palin–The woman vice presidential candidate with strong, anti-woman policies.

Palin is adamantly opposed to reproductive rights. She opposes abortion including in cases of rape and incest. She opposes birth control, emergency contraception and just like McCain, is all about abstinence-only education. Basically, she agrees with McCain regarding all forms of sexuality and wants to tell people everywhere that if they have sex, that woman better be damn ready to squeeze out that baby in 9 months. A McCain/Palin regime for women would look eerily similar to this.

Palin has absolutely no federal or international experience whatsoever. Prior to being the governor of Alaska for less than two years, (I can’t believe she and Mike Gravel actually share a state) she was the mayor of a small town made up of around 6,000 people. Before that, she was a beauty queen. (Is McCain looking for a new mistress? A third wife, perhaps?)

I found it oddly peculiar how the Republicans who were bashing Obama about not having enough experience are fully supporting a McCain/Palin ticket when Palin has no experience at all.

Palin strongly supports big oil. Hell, not only does she support it, she’s profiting from it with her husband working for an oil company. A McCain/Palin ticket would mean just more of the same when it comes to going after countries for their oil–They both make a killing from it and us meager, middle class Americans can just keep enlisting in the military and having our lives taken away from us in vain to support the wallets of these people. Oh, did I mention she’s 100% pro-war? Yeah…no surprise.

She believes that global warming is not only not man-made, but is a total farce and goes as far as to being opposed to listing the polar bear on the endangered species list. But that isn’t her only anti-animal policy; she also supports aerial shooting of bears and wolves in Alaska.

She is in favor of public schools teaching abstinence-only education (Alaska is currently considering spending more on abstinence-only sex education) and creationism. I can see the syllabus…”Yes, a man in the sky made you and he says not to have sex until you’re married no matter what. Got it? And if you are raped, even if you’re raped by a member of your family and become pregnant you will have that baby!”

When it comes to other issues of women, such as equal pay for equal work, she is following McCain’s lead and isn’t even on the record.

Palin has went on the record, however, with how she feels about LGBT rights:

“[...] she’s not out to judge anyone and has good friends who are gay, but that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.

Elected officials can’t defy the court when it comes to how rights are applied, she said, but she would support a ballot question that would deny benefits to homosexual couples.

“I believe that honoring the family structure is that important,” Palin said.

She said she doesn’t know if people choose to be gay.

“But, but, but…I have gay friends!” Come on. And why hasn’t she asked these said gay friends if they chose to be gay? For the record: No, people do not choose to be gay and if they did, who do you think would choose to be denied basic, human rights and be discriminated against to such a degree? There are the cases of Brandon Teena, Matthew Shepard and so many others who have been brutally attacked and killed for nothing other than the fact that they happened to be gay. Who would choose to be the target for hate crimes? Yeah, I don’t think so.

Best of all, Palin has already managed to get herself involved in a scandal:

A legislative investigation is looking into allegations that Palin fired Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he refused to fire the governor’s former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

Palin acknowledged that a member of her staff made a call to a trooper in which the staffer suggested he was speaking for the governor.

Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin’s sister.

This is a direct abuse of power on her part and I don’t want to see what else she is capable of if she ever saw the white house.

Sarah Palin stands for everything Hillary Clinton is against so please, Hillary supporters, do not be fooled.

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    I don't think you have to worry. Any self respecting Hillary supporter will see through this GOP created farce right away. I really enjoyed this post btw. While I appreciate the fact that Sarah Palin is a mother of 5 children, and a woman (though you may beg to differ), that is where our similarities end. I for one am not buying the whole, "but, but, but you're a woman you just have to vote for her" arguement. I don't know too many intelligent women who will.
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    I should add that I didn't mean that I don't know too many intelligent women who will vote for McCain/Palin, I am sure there are many very intelligent women who will. What I meant was that I don't know too many intelligent women who would go against their own political beliefs or personal values solely to cast a vote for Palin or any other woman, simply because she's woman. Just wanted to clear that up BEFORE the hate started. :)
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    I stood on the street the other day and I asked around fifty educated women who were leaving office buildings where people worked in degreed professional jobs, juding by the way they were dressed and looked, and nearly all of them said they would vote for McCain, now that he chose a real woman. That is good I say. I will take Sara over a Feminiazi like Hillary any day.
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    Here's a newsflash: judging by the way a woman dresses or looks does NOT constitute a "degreed professional". Office buildings are full of non-degreed personnel, honey. Not everybody can be a CEO. That being said, "degreed professional" also does not denote "politically educated". Your assumptions and generalizations are laughable. And who dragged Hillary into this? Since she's not even on a ticket, I fail to see the relevance of that statement.

    Since you have so much time to stand around on the street, I can only assume you're independently wealthy, and in that case, it's a pretty good indicator as to why you're pushing for McPalin. If you're not then you're just unemployed (with the time to talk to a whopping FIFTY women on the street? That's just about an all-day task) in which case I sincerely suggest you look farther into Obama/Biden.
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    Sounds like sour grapes to me, this is a very strong independent woman of sound moral character. When asked by her doctor if she wanted to have an abortion to kill her baby with down syndrome she said no. How can you say this woman is not a feminist when she fallows the original feminist Susan B, Anthony who also was staunchly pro life but also was a strong independent woman of high moral character who like Sarah loved her husband first and her children second. People are getting tired of your self centered secular humanist bs that worships and the shrine of extreme environmentalists who push for abortion on demand and zero population growth. It is people with your view point who are racist that support Planned Parenthood and their holocaust of Black America where Black woman make 6% of the population and comprise 40% of all abortions. Not to mention the countless woman who have committed suicide over the guilt of having an abortion that is three times the national average. Who truly cares about woman, certainly radical socialists at Planned Parenthood who want to destroy America and they have done a really good job since 1973 contributing in large part to the 50,000,000 million babies killed. This pathetic, those who are for protecting innocent life are not extreme it is those who support it that are.
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    Well now why would I be supporting Planned Parenthood when I despise them, what you have to do is look at their founder Margret Sanger and her views of minorities and black people as be less than human, how can you say that Planned Parenthood this explains why the vast majority of the abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods. Check out www.blackgenocide.org this explains the history of this evil orgination They are the ones promoting permissques sex on their tenwire website that has been praised by the porno industry and they also have no time for abstinence education and responsibility because they want teenagers to have sex so they will eventually get pregnant and have to come in for an abortion. They don't tell their patients that is a human being but a blob of tissue, that's lie life is a gift form God and I don't know if you are religious or not and not trying to push it on you but Jesus said I have come to bring you life, and bring you life more abundantly. While the devil comes like a thief in the night to kill and destroy . The point is the vast majority of abortions preformed are out of convenience and 45% of woman who have had them have had more than one. There is no moral responsibility here that is why socialism and communism is responsibly for murdering more people than anyone since its formation 160 years ago, no one else comes close. Because they have taken God out of the equation, there God is power, absolute power. You show me someone who dose not fear God or man and I will show you a murderer. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. KC I am no racist and I don't think you are either God bless and I hope you will see the truth and it will set you free
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    Planned Parenthood is not solely an abortion clinic. My neighborhood Planned Parenthood does not even perform abortions at all. Planned Parenthood is a facility that offers women real sex education, none of that "just don't do it because bad things will happen to you if you do" bullshit. Abstinence-only education has no right to be taught anywhere to anyone because it has been proven time and time again that abstinence-only education programs do NOT work. By preaching abstinence you are moving educated individuals backwards and preaching to young teenagers and children not to have sex, you are doing nothing but making them more interested and that is where Planned Parenthood comes in. Planned Parenthood offers birth control and condoms to women who want to have sex but do not want to have a child. Sex is natural, it is normal and it is a fact that women want to have sex and not have a child. If you're preaching that birth control should not be taken by women, where is your argument that men should not be given the right to have a vasectomy? Not every sperm is sacred and not every ejaculation deserves a name.

    Planned Parenthood also offers counseling before a woman will be granted her right to an abortion, which is to say the least, insulting to a woman's intelligence to begin with, but they do it so people like you can be quiet about it already. They also offer STD testing and antibiotics to either get rid of the STD or keep it at bay. They also offer pregnancy testing and care for pregnant women all at little to no cost for women who don't have enough money for their mortgage, rent, food and raising the kids they have already and I'm sorry to break it to you, but women of all races are poor. I, for one, am white and pretty middle to low class and have benefited from Planned Parenthood and not because I needed an abortion.

    Planned Parenthood are not based solely in minority neighborhoods, they have clinics wherever they can and in any neighborhood they can because they know that there are women everywhere who are not religious. I am very sorry to fill you in on the fact that god just doesn't exist in a lot of people's lives and those people should not be required to live the same type of lives that religious people do. America is the place for freedom of religion, sure, but it's implied that you must pick a religion. When do we get freedom FROM religion?

    Lastly, if you are going to spread your religious propaganda here, please back it up with facts, which do not include religious sources of any kind or any website who uses religion, scare tactics and insult the intelligence and rights of women in any part on their website or else your further comments will be deleted.

    Thank you.
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    First of all you do not represent all the women as the majority of people are now 54% pro life and the more people know about abortion the more they understanding it is morally wrong and murder. Funny how socialist always want to censor the truth as the tried in the Soviet Union but funny how the truth always wins out in the end. The trouble with people like you is you want freedoms without any kind of responsibility. That's ok the truth will eventually come out and I can guarantee Planned Parenthood and the abortion on demand and wonton atitudes about sex will come out on the wrong side of history as did slavery and Germany in WW II. God bless and hopefully you will see the truth of what PP is really doing and stop listen to their secular humanist propaganda
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    No, Mark, I do not represent all women, I chose to start a website that declares what I, an American, middle-class woman believes and thinks. I do not push my views on other people, I do not tell people to read my website, they choose to read this website because maybe there are some other women (and even men) who believe and think the same as I do and want a place to voice their concerns and take part in respectful conversations. You are not being respectful in the least (not even close) by coming here and leaving comments saying that all women who have abortions are murderers. I do not know if you know this or not, but this isn't a post about how I feel about abortion, but there are many other posts here that do voice my opinion on abortion that you could have picked instead of just jumping in the most recent post that speaks about pregnancy and tooting your pro-life horn.

    Why is it that "people like you" always jump to the word "socialist" and feel the need to mention Germany, WWII and slavery? Do you not have anything else to come up with? Dig a little deeper because your "examples" are so overdone and are thrown in the faces of the pro-CHOICE (not pro-abortion, but pro-choice) population so much that we are becoming desensitized to your shock tactics.

    I am very sorry that you obviously could not come up with any other facts on this issue besides what your church says your god told them is truth. When you speak to this god personally and ask him/her/it/etc. their opinion please get back to me and do not cite from the bible because the bible was not written by your god, it was written from nothing but hearsay and that's in the history books. Also, as I'm assuming you're a member of organized religion, jesus said not to worship as part of an organized or even in a small group--He said that prayer was intimate and that it should take place in the privacy of your own home so the next time you decide to go to a website and yell 'murder' and use church and religion as a backup, make sure the webmaster of that website doesn't know more about religion than you do. Oh, and did I mention I was raised strict Roman Catholic and went to church twice a week until I reached the age of reason? Yeah...take some points into consideration before website-hopping and spreading your venom.
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    Actually the statistic I have are from Alan Gutmacher Institute Planned Parenthoods think tank, not exactly subjective info if you would have read what I said in my original passage not only do I not call women murders I call Planned Parenthood murders because they have contributed to 50,000,000 million abortions(murders) since 1973 these are facts from the US Center for Disease control and not venom but the truth. The bible is the inspired word of God and that is your "choice" to reject but there are consequences to all are choices. Why can't we be a society that values all children and rethink abortion on demand. I am not trying to hate on anyone. We humans only like to here things we agree with that is ture no matter who we are.
    To be honest men are by and large the contributing factor to this whole mess, it was men who forced Betty Fridan to push for abortion in the feminist movement in 1966 and it was the all male supreme court who passed this right into law. So hey I can also tell you I have friends on both sides of the issue and in a lot case boyfriends and husbands push women into abortions. These guys are pathetic pigs totally disgusting. We can do better than this mess we need to have a more compasionate society. Don't you agree?
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    I agree that men who force their girlfriends and wives to have abortions are pathetic, disgusting pigs but when a woman goes in for an abortion, she is counseled before having one and told that it is ultimately their decision to do so and no one else's. You cannot lump all women who have abortions as being forced to have an abortion; a lot of women do so because it is their choice and because they have freedom over their own bodies and have the right, according to law, to have that choice. Stop insulting the intelligence of women, that too is disgusting and pathetic.

    I am also not a big fan of your underlying scare tactics. "There are consequences to all choices" and putting murders in parenthesis. What may be a human being to you may be a zygote to someone else; like I have stated earlier, this is not your playground to spread your venom and this is really your last warning because I'm getting sick of fielding your comments and watching you insult the intelligence of both men and women who may disagree with you.
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    I gotta say I agree with everything you are saying...My pastor is the leader of a pro-life group called Missionaries to the Preborn and I think every argument you have made are ones my pastor has. He has a website for the group called missionariestopreborn.com. You should go to it if you are interested. The group has been amazingly successful and has shut down the majority (7 out of 9) abortion clinics in Milwaukee, WI (where the group is based) since its startup in 1990. There are also a lot more interesting facts on the site and the accomplishments of the group. Also, I want to let you know that any unbiased person would be able to tell that you are making logical arguments supported with great evidence and facts. I love how the moderater calls your side of the intelligent argument the two of you are having "venom" and is warning you to stop. I guess we know who the real close-minded one is.
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    When I got married, I was no longer covered by my mom's health insurance, and had to go to Planned Parenthood for birth control. I was able to receive quality care from a physician--all for free-- and now I have the freedom to "plan" my "parenthood". I have the freedom to further my education, rather than stay at home taking care of three kids. I have the freedom to contribute more to society than I would have if not for the free services I received. I've never gotten an abortion; I never had to, thanks to planned parentood.

    Quite frankly, I think you have no idea what you are talking about.
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    (my comment was directed at Mark in case there was confusion)
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    "I've never gotten an abortion; I never had to, thanks to planned parentood."

    Here, here!

    Okay, I have good insurance coverage, so I go to this excellent women's health clinic rather than PP, but the point is still the same. I don't want to get pregnant, but I don't want to have an abortion. Fortunately, my pro-birth-control, pro-choice clinic has helped me figure out the best birth control methods to use so that I don't have to ever have an abortion.

    (For the record, I would get an abortion if I found myself with an unwanted pregnancy. I'd just rather not have an unwanted pregnancy in the first place.)
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    Mark, I'm terribly sorry to throw this at you but, while you're stats are not arguable ("It is people with your view point who are racist that support Planned Parenthood and their holocaust of Black America where Black woman make 6% of the population and comprise 40% of all abortions.") did you ever stop to think WHY it's Black women that comprise 40% of all abortions? Could it be because we're still a relatively racist, sexist country? Do you realize that feminist International Relation theories see that all over the world (including developed nations like the US) women are the ones who suffer when it comes to trying to find jobs, hold a steady income and pay off their own doctors bills let alone their children's? I would also like to point out that Planned Parenthood does the opposite of what you think it does. Planned Parenthood is NOT an abortion clinic nor do they try to sway you one way or the other. They provide reduced (or free) birth control for people unable to afford it as well as other contraceptives (condoms, etc.) to help prevent unwanted pregnancy and to slow or stop the spread of STD's in America. It also provides reduced price prenatal care to women who decide to keep the child. And why is it always "Socialist organizations"? If you can explain to me what the roots of Socialism are based on (an educational answer) you would see how very wrong you are. I am tired of Socialists getting a bad name because everyone thinks Socialism and Communism are one in the same.

    I would also like to point out that if the woman has gotten herself into the situation of deciding whether or not to have a baby, it is her choice. Why have a child you cannot afford to care for? So our prisons fill up with women charged with child neglect, sell their kids for drugs or alcohol? So that adoption agencies continue to fill with children that could not be cared for by their mothers and/or fathers and sit in the system until they are 18 when they are thrown on the streets- many of them (statistically) social miscreants? Why? So people like you can bitch about the bum on the street trying to get a few cents from you for a burger? Maybe if we had better state-funded healthcare (oops...that's the Socialist in me talking, right?), less unemployment because of our fantastic conservative economic policies (sorry, Reaganomics didn't work 30 years ago, it won't work today) we wouldn't have to MAKE that choice. Or are you drawing on the assumption (since the Black Women stat is the one you chose) that these women are impoverished, drug-users from the city who sleep around. Would you like to see the statistics on white women between the ages of 15-25 that have abortions? If you're daughter came home to you, fifteen years of age, pregnant because you wouldn't allow her to be on birth control and you couldn't afford the baby or the prenatal care (that the nutwing socialist group Planned Parenthood provides at low cost) and yelled up and down about how you taught her abstinence, what would you do? How would you react?

    Being feminist doesn't mean you support abortion or sleeping around, it means you support a woman's ability to CHOOSE. I'm a feminist and a socialist and I don't believe in abortion unless the baby is a product of rape and/or incest or will more than likely die (along with mother) at birth- but I support a woman's right to choose. Who am I to say what everyone else should be able to do with their body? Yes, it is THEIR body. As long as that child relies on its mother for support it is a part of her body.

    Always better to be an environmentalists than it is to be delusional :)
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    Hello KC thanks for the reply my beef is not with women, it is with people lying to us. To be honest I actually blame men for this situation way more than women, in a lot of situations women are let on there own and yes I understand this. What I am trying to say as America can and should do better than abortion it is not just a blob of tissue it is a human being we all need to take responsibility for this problem and I for one have, my ex wife had an affair and she came back crying to me that she was pregnant and I took her to all the doctor appointments to make sure this child was born because I feel so strongly against it that hey if you talk the talk you better walk the walk. So the child was born and she bolted again, who knows this kid may find a cure for cancer, you never know. So great to talk with you and I hope we can come up with a better option to at least further curb abortion on demand

    I think we need to see more churches step up to the plate and stand in the gap for women in crisis as we are country in many ways that lacks compassion that is why we are in this mess. Talk is talk, but true love is to walk the extra mile with someone and help a women see the option of adoption that why she dose not have to go through the gilt and trauma of abortion
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