[Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...

[keely emerinemix]

Dan, Sunil, I'm wild about you both -- so let me explain.  

Women have, traditionally, been the focus of dismissal and denigration simply because they're women -- or gals, or babes, or chicks, or "C" words, or bitches.  

Sarah Palin, however, can and should be dismissed; she appears incapable of serious insight, introspection, and intelligence -- things I would require of the Mayor of Wasilla, the Vice President of the U.S., and, frankly, the mother of real, live children.  She shouldn't be denigrated as a person, as if she has no ontological worth, but honesty permits one to conclude that she's dumb, brash, and shallow, has chosen to stay that way, and appears to want to cash in on it.  Reverting to gender-based insults not only  perpetuates the harm done to women, but misdirects the outrage a lot of people feel toward her.  It ain't because she's a woman that she's a dim bulb; she's a dim bulb, and an obnoxious one, because she chooses to be.  Independent of having ovaries, even.

That doesn't, by the way, mean that you can't use "woman" to describe her, as in, "I don't think she's a very bright woman, frankly" -- but not, "I think the bitch is just a dumb c---."  Now I know my pal Area Man, of whom I really am fond, and my pal Sunil, who I also think a lot of, obviously understand that.  It just bothers me that other people don't.



Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:43 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...








Dan,

I didn't take it that way at all. I thought Keely's joke was related not to Palin's gender, or her party identification, but rather to her serial butchery of the English language.

Sunil

From: areaman at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:48:40 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...










Keely, I love you like a sister, but I gotta call you 
out:
 
You say:
". . . women know "dismissal" and "denigration" all 
too well . . . "
which tells me you are not a fan of those 
"activities"
 
yet, in your prior message, you say:
"No.  It's actually quite . . . uh . . . 
perspicacious.  (Sarah, that doesn't mean "all sweaty an' stuff . . . 
")"
 
I hate to say it, but it seems a bit hypocritical. Unless 
it's okay to denigrate and dismiss a woman as long as she 
sits on the other side of the aisle.
 
your pal
 
DC
 
P.S. I'm not saying I'm a fan of Palin (I'm not saying I'm 
not either -- I don't really care one way or the other about her), but I won't 
be reading her book.  I'm busy with Stephen King's new one that I got 
for my birthday.  He must get paid by the pound. 		 	   		  
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