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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: Women Against Sarah Palin |
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http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com
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| On Wednesday, September 3, we sent out an email to 40 friends and colleagues asking them to respond to Sarah Palin�s candidacy as Vice President of the United States. They forwarded the letter to their friends across America. To date, we have received more than 160,000 responses from women of all ages and backgrounds. Below are their voices. |
American women here might (or might not) like to participate on the blog. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Who are these "women?" Intolerant feminists who want to suppress those women who fail their ideological purity tests, no doubt. There are all kinds of women, Big_Bird; just as there are all kinds of men -- and children, and upper classes, and middle classes, and lower classes, and whites, and blacks, and Hispanics, and Asians, and the list goes on.
Gender, class, and race, you see. (And I did it differently than the usual race, class, and gender ordering of the thing. But I had to because we started with "women."  ) |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Hahaha I hope your own mother posts on that blog, Mr G. I would be so tickled!!  |
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Leslie Cheswyck
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| That's womyn, Gopher. |
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Gopher
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Leslie Cheswyck
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Gopher
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Dude. I thought black men were supposed to be able to dance well. What in the hell is Mr. T doing here? And how do you think he feels about S. Palin, by the way? |
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Leslie Cheswyck
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Czarjorge
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Goph, you're being willfully obtuse again. Clearly on 'women's issues' Palin is a little backward. And while you are correct to make the point that the idea of 'women's issues' is a liberal construct it doesn't change the fact that the term itself has merit. It was 'liberal' ladies that fought for the vote, and that alone earns them the right to dictate terms. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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You heard Woah-man and I heard Woe-man! 
That was quite cool, actually. I enjoyed the timing and everything. Interesting. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| It was 'liberal' ladies that fought for the vote, and that alone earns them the right to dictate terms. |
Wrong.
And you do not have the power to simply sweep aside and exclude all women who disagree with "liberal ladies." More smug elitism. Yet another reason why I can hardly stand your side's worldviews and politics anymore.
Besides, I do not have to argue this point with you. Phyllis Schlafly and other conservative women can argue it for themselves. We want our country to exist as a pluralist democracy. And in a pluralist democracy there is ample room for women who share S. Palin's politics. If you do not like this, then too damn bad.
Liberals, Jorgito, simply do not get to "dictate terms," as you say. Keep dreaming about tyranny or whatever it is that was going through your little Khmer-Rouge head when you wrote this.
Oh yeah, and I am laughing at your ignorance when I write this, you do realize that these "liberal women" you hero-worship, these Great Women who fought so hard for voting rights cast black women aside -- excluded them from national and state organizations and meetings, especially where Southern white women's sensibilities were concerned, etc. -- for political expediency all over the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, no? |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Oh yeah, and I am laughing at your ignorance when I write this, you do realize that these "liberal women" you hero-worship, these Great Women who fought so hard for voting rights cast black women aside -- excluded them from national and state organizations and meetings, especially where Southern white women's sensibilities were concerned, etc. -- for political expediency all over the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, no? |
BOOYAKASHA! Respect. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Who are these "women?" Intolerant feminists who want to suppress those women who fail their ideological purity tests, no doubt. There are all kinds of women, Big_Bird; just as there are all kinds of men -- and |
Anyway Gopher, you seem to have missed the fact that this blog is open to women from any place in the political spectrum. They've even included a section titled: Republican Women Say NO (for your mother to post on )
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| Putting a woman such as Sarah Palin on the ticket as the VP nominee is a slap in the face to women everywhere, and especially to the many other quite capable and much more qualified Republican women out there. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| There are all kinds of women, Big_Bird; just as there are all kinds of men -- and |
.....all kinds of everything
tehehe |
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Big_Bird
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