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Dan, Sunil, I'm wild about you both -- so let me explain. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: sunilramalingam@hotmail.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:43 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...<br><br>
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Dan,<br><br>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.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: areaman@moscow.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:48:40 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The new The Saga Continues...<br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Keely, I love you like a sister, but I gotta call you
out:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial">You say:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">". . .</font> women know "dismissal" and "denigration" all
too well . . . "</div>
<div><font face="Arial">which tells me you are not a fan of those
"activities"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">yet, in your prior message, you say:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">"No. It's actually quite . . . uh . . .
perspicacious. (Sarah, that doesn't mean "all sweaty an' stuff . . .
")"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">your pal</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">DC</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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.</font></div> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/
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