A followup on an earlier article.
There were some days during the campaign when it was like, whoever was dressing her was playing a very volatile game with the voting public.
Most days in her press photos, she was kind of strapped in and buttoned/zipped up. Which was great. She wore it well, it was probably very practical, no looming threat of wardrobe malfunction/The Gaffe To End All Gaffes, etc.
Then, there were those o_O days when they were all, alright f' it she is America's Fertility Goddess, and we're going for it:
That poor fella in the Navy hat. If I were him I would probably have fainted.
NYC trip, mid September
Uh-huh. Alrighty, then.
I mean, really, people.
Come on. Wtf was that.
I would really like it if any of the "Palin sexism watchers" would weigh in on this aspect of the McCain campaign, because in the aftermath, after all the post-mortems, pointed fingers and games blamed, the use of Sarah's body as a votebanking tool -- and her own full participation in it a a consciously-invested agent -- is a real issue that nooooo self-respecting, public feminist seems to want to talk seriously about in the open, yet.
I'm wondering, why not.
We should figure it out soon, because she completely disrupts the grumpy old, arcane "objectification" critique of women's subjugation as pushed by some of the anti-Palin PUMAs, for good. She is WAY ahead of that, cough/ahem, curve.
Others will be sure to follow, on any side of anyone's aisle. That is the key, here.
I say, good on 'er. We need to come up with an analysis, and we need to come up with it now, because this is not going to just go away/slink back to Alaska/get impeached like I personally once hoped it might, and other people still falsely hope it will.
