Go Read It: Gloria Steinem says Palin is Wrong Woman with the Wrong Message
It's no secret here at MOMocrats that, while we would LOVE to see more women in politics, Sarah Palin just isn't out kind of gal.
Not surprisingly, she's not the kind of woman Gloria Steinem wants to have in the White House, either. In her op-ed in the L.A. Times today, Wrong Woman, Wrong Message, Steinem writes:
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
We'll be following these rules tonight at the Skylark. Her speech should start sometime after 8pm.
Modified from the McCain on the Rocks Drinking Liberally drinking game
Palin on the Rocks:
The Official Drinking Liberally
Sarah Palin Convention Speech Drinking Game
Take a Sip when
She Says:
- faith
- Barack Obama
- abortion
- pregnancy
or when:
- She claims that "the media" is attacking her family
- She makes reference to being governor of Alaska
- She talks about the sanctity of life
- She makes a positive reference to Hillary Clinton
- She mentions Cindy McCain
rest of the game after the fold
Take a Gulp when:
- She claims that "the Democrats/Democrat party" is attacking her party
- She makes reference to being a beauty queen
- She uses a down-homey aphorism
- She makes a positive reference to Geraldine Ferraro
- She calls Obama a muslim
- She references her relationship with God
- She mentions the lack of a vetting process
Chug when:
- She claims that Joe Biden is attacking her family
- She makes reference to being a tv sports anchor
‘The Cost of Silence’ - now it’s the BLACK WOMAN’S fault that White Feminists don’t defend Michelle Obama? HELL NO
From The Root.com:
The Cost of Silence
By Corinne Douglas and Jacquelyn Gray | TheRoot.com
Black women’s attacks on white feminists during the primaries may be coming back to bite Michelle Obama.
Aug. 25, 2008–Tonight is Michelle Obama’s night at the Democratic Convention. She will reintroduce herself to America, try to convince us that she and her family, especially her husband, are just like us and worthy of our support.
Expect her to be phenomenal. Expect her to be attacked, as well.
Republicans and their surrogates have already tried to diminish the achievements of the Obamas and to mute their widespread appeal by portraying Michelle Obama as an angry black woman. She has been caricatured, and she has been mocked. But the angry, fearful reactions that Ms. Obama’s depiction has stirred up in men were not that different from those generated by Hillary Clinton during the 1992 and 2008 primary election seasons. And the recent failure among so many African-American women to stand up for Clinton—regardless of how they intended to vote in the primaries—gave many male political commentators tacit permission to do the same thing to Ms. Obama.
Gloria Steinem
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