The (gender) Politics of Palin
Posted by dustin on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 10:50am
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(the following video was produced for MTV News where I contribute as a freelance journalist. It was originally posted here.)
It's been just over three weeks since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but she dominated the news (until the complete meltdown of our financial institutions.) The self-described "hockey mom" to five children, moose-hunter, and staunch pro-life candidate has generated a great deal of talk about gender and politics. With that in mind, I spoke with several Nashville women to get a feel for some opinions and attitudes about the overnight star of the Republican party.
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that the average American woman is as clueless as the average American man. THat should eliminate any sexist arguments. :)
What is really depressing is that the one person interviewed that said anything of any substance had a British accent, so if she's an American citizen, I'm guessing that she probably wasn't raised or educated here. Depressing.
Tom Mullen
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God" - Thomas Jefferson
Why didn't you ask any men what they think? If I were looking to get opinions from people, their character, intelligence and education would matter much more to me than their gender. Gender politics is a great tool for collectivists, because it gets people used to thinking of themselves as members of a group rather than as individuals.
Politics would be far more rational if only politicians didn't keep dividing the electorate into special interest groups-- and if the American people didn't allow themselves to be divided that way.