Sarah Palin and the Wrong Way to Battle Sexism

By Rebecca Hyman, AlterNet. Posted September 16, 2008.

Palin's VP run reveals more dimensions to sexism in America. And
merely weeding out a few bad apples like Chris Matthews won't solve
the problem.

Now that the "pit bull in lipstick" who got her start in the PTA has
had her honor defended on the national stage, it's only fitting that
we're all waiting for Obama's "female surrogates" to fight back. In
case we were a bit anesthetized, with all that rocking and "change"
chanting, we now have a reason to wake up: hot girl-on-girl action,
Election 2008.

In the two weeks since Sarah Palin was introduced to America, first as
the second-ever female candidate for vice president, and soon after as
the baby-making, gun-toting, wolf-killing beauty queen of the
Christian Right, the question of sexism -- or, more precisely, the
media's use of sexist frames to introduce and belittle female
candidates -- has returned with a vengeance.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

True, you Dems had your chance with Hillary and you pushed her under
Barry's bus - you should be ASHAMED of yourselves.

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not too random uselessnet weirdness:

Bill Shatzer wrote:

"And over 4,000 Americans have paid with their lives for that little
adventure. Plus a half a trillion dollars in national treasure

You might compare that with the number of lives lost on 9-11. Or the
economic injury incurred from that event.

It would have been cheaper in both lives and money to just suffer
another 9-11 every six or seven years.