Ok folks, the thighs thing is creepin' me out.
I'm not posting the pictures here because I'm still not convinced of the veracity of them all. But blogs and sites from Huffington Post to Conservowank Central are talking about those pics of the SaPa by the pool, in shorts, during the Republican Governor's Association meeting in Miami. I thought they were fun when I first saw them, but (and I really should have seen this coming) after reading what people had to say about it -- always my first mistake in following this little phenomenon that is the subject of this blog -- I started to turn up my nose, and not at the pics.
Ken at Wonkette deduced from these shots, which seem to have originated from someone at Bauer-Griffin (though don't quote OCIHACOSP on it), that she's a slob and put their entry in the "white trash" category. Though, this did have me laughing:
Where is Trig, anyway? Not really needed so much these days. “Fuck lotta good YOU did,” Palin was heard shouting at the poor child, who was stuck under a lounge chair on the other side of the pool, covered in potato chip bags.
Trig...how can you not like Trig, he's so fat and cute, just like a 6 month old is supposed to be.
So, this is why I continue to do this blog: can't help but notice the obsession with Governorcuda's thighs in the comment sections of these places (and so, this is why I do not have comments on this blog.)
I mean, come ON, people. Let's not let our salaciousness get so carried away that people get pho tosh oppe d again. There's a reason I also haven't posted those almost unwatchable youtubes of her Miss Alaska footage, again rife with these weird comments about her thighs. There may be commentary to come on that. But be prepared, because like the bulk of this phenomenon I'm covering, I saw, and see, something very different in those clips, than most.
Lol it's even freakin' me out to write this post, because to be frank, I'm not really sure what to say.
I guess it's just weird, watching other people display these epic issues about somebody's thighs, just because they got a glimpse, or thought they did.
I myself look at this spectacle, post-election, and think, "that was a VP candidate, who's now trying to be leader of the GOP." There's plenty to criticize, but thighs? I think what's troublesome is that for the most part Sarah Palin has been 100% complicit in the coy sexpot part of her image. So for those moments, she gets what she gets.
As Egotastic jokes, "Now, I know some people don't like it when a qualified woman is reduced to being a sexual object for the enjoyment of men. But it's okay, because Sarah Palin isn't qualified." Really? Don't be too sure on what qualifies a person to certain others. Conservative people are so ruthless and vicious they will follow ANYONE who embodies these ideals, as SP so ably does. So in my book she's quite well qualified to take the reigns of their degraded party and thus this fixation I'm seeing about her thighs just might not be appropriate.
But chillin' by a pool? Not so sure about that being fair game -- I suppose it is -- and yet, the genie's been let out of the bottle. Anything she does, now, is going to be seen in light of the "sexy" femme top image she herself helped create, and solidify in the minds of the voting populace.
Then again, it's not like Hillary's infamous bathing suit moment either, which she later discussed as being a highly embarrassing one. Sorry, no pics or links on that, either, because we all know the one I'm talking about. And hey, Tina Fey -- who readily acknowledges that even she doens't 'got what Sarah's got' -- mocked exactly this situation 3 weeks in advance, as depicted in one of the pics below.
All I can say is, for those whining that Sarah's thighs may or may not be hard and sculpted put your Not Sarah Palin Blowup Doll away, get yourself an actual girlfriend, and learn what real women look like under our clothes.
Familiarize your uneducated selves with concepts like "body shaper" and "control top" and "slimming apparel" because yes -- and this is for the hardcore sarah palin feminism watchers too, (who, strangely are missing out on this fodder) -- real women wear them, and so does Sarah Palin...so does every woman in the public eye, along with those of us who aren't.
Real women wear them, not always to "please men" or heap oppression on other women who don't have that kind of body. It's like Black women and young adults who dye their hair Harlow platinum blonde -- not because they buy into white ideals of beauty but, often, simply, because they can. It's complicated; different people have different motives which may often contradict and/or overlap. I say, when one has the kind of body you can "do something with", e.g. put into garters or corsets or cantilever bras or other unmentionables, then, hey, if it feels good, do it.
And in the case of Sarah Palin, as I said long ago, if it gets votes, do it. Especially if it's the kind of vote that will split your reactionary party in a million bits and take you until at least 2012 to recover.
Sorry to go all Chris Crocker, but the American people were sold a star image and a public persona, not the real person under the image. That includes the thighs under the Spanx, or whatever they put her in.
Never mistake the image for reality and here's another dose: most people -- regardless of gender or biological sex -- do NOT have tight thighs at age 44.
Most 44 year old American women do not have thighs like Sarah's, either.
So, you know, get a clue.
