Reply #19: Well said...

[countryjake]

I haven't been reading any other forum but here, so that thing you mentioned about having to feel like some perspective needs to be in place, and defending her rights simply as a woman, reminds me of the "babygate" posts that keep popping up to the top. The only two places, besides the original two blogs from March being used as proof, that I've heard this being gobsmacked around, are here and with a group of real-life gals I know, religious right-wing fundies mostly, who are aghast at Palin's pregnancy, birthing, and her failings as a mother. As tho someone's reproductive affairs, or her children, are fair game, not an extremely personal matter. As tho all the marching we did throughout the sixties, to gain privacy for our vaginas, is no longer relevant, when an election is at stake.

One thing I did discover the other afternoon is that the right-wing may have under-estimated the medieval mind-set of some of their evangelical base, cause some simply cannot get past wondering how devoted Palin could be to her offspring, to abandon kids for a political office. Those harpies would snatch away her ability to support her family, in a new york minute, and while some think that voting McCain may be the way to do it, there are others so hard-core, they don't. I kind of think that Palin is being offered up as the sacrificial lamb, the means to an end, the final Jezebel to end all Jezebels.

I'm not only disheartened, but pretty disgusted with much of the talk I've heard these past two days. While I get a kick from fucking with the minds of my fundie friends, and the Palin subject does offer much fodder in making headway in prying open some of those type minds, it leaves me drained to come home, log on, and find similar processes at work, from the supposedly opposite stratosphere.