I’ve received a few comments and e-mails challenging me to provide concrete examples of the feminist hypocrisy in cruel attacks on Sarah Palin that my co-author Jennifer Ginsberg and I wrote about in our pieces on the media’s and some feminists’ treatment of Palin (please see commentary section below).
For just a couple of many examples, click here and here.
Regarding Trig, a law professor at Cornell has contributed some excellent analysis and compiled some especially egregious examples of cruelty and ridicule here. I don’t know if those who posted these disgusting photo shopped images consider themselves “feminists” because–true to the way lowlifes tend to operate–the cowards posted them anonymously. But I would suspect “Wonkette,” a prominent Washington D.C.-based blogger who has actually defended this cruelty, probably does consider herself a fine feminist.
One of the most patently absurd arguments the perpetrators and apologists for this vileness are making is that Sarah Palin and even her infant son somehow deserve vicious ridicule because she brought him center stage at the Republican National Convention and on the campaign trail. Does that mean that Sasha and Malia Obama deserve to be viciously mocked and reviled because they were “used” as “props” by their father (remember, he brought them center stage at the Democratic National Convention)? How difficult is it to grasp that that would be totally unacceptable? So why the extreme and obvious double standard?
The fact is, the people who defend cruelty in the blogosphere and media against Sarah Palin and her family just won’t–or can’t–see the ugliness of their behavior, and it would appear that no amount of consciousnessness raising will get through to them. Either they are just bestial people or there is something deeper at work psychologically. Or both.
Sarah Palin’s pro-life views, and her decision to have Trig and love him, are so deeply upsetting to them, so threatening to their belief in their own moral superiority, that they feel they must demonize her in order to feel their psychological equilibrium restored.
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To Nadav and others dubious about the abuse I’ve reported of Sarah Palin and her infant son, this law professor from Cornell has compiled some examples: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/06/wonkette-goes-after-trig-palin-again.html
I don’t know if those who posted the photo shopped images consider themselves feminists, because they posted anonymously, but I suspect “Wonkette,” who defends their behavior, considers herself a fine feminist.
For links to other specific examples of “feminist” rage and hatred, please see my blog post for today, Wed. August 12th, on this site, or my original piece on the subject, which ran on The Huffington Post, “The Savaging of Sarah Palin.”
Thanks for reading and commenting.
The feedback on your article with Jennifer Ginsberg on MomLogic was so positive that they posted a new article yesterday highlighting the comments on the original article:
Sarah Palin’s Brave Choice — The Comments
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Last week we brought you a thought-provoking look at Sarah Palin’s brave decision to raise a child with Down Syndrome, which was juxtaposed with a personal story of choice and soul-searching.
http://www.momlogic.com/2009/08/momlogic_community_speaks_out_sarah_palin.php
Nice work!
Also, a quick search on Google shows a number of web sites, blogs and forums who are following your series of articles on Palin you wrote with Ginsberg:
Woman in Media and News
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/2009/07/07/donny-deutsch-on-msnbc-palins-polarizing-because-she-is-the-first-woman-in-power-with-sexual-appeal/
Texas for Palin
This is the eighth in a series in which TX4P recommends some of the best writing which chronicles the liberation of Sarah Palin from the ball and chain of the Alaska governors office to her new role as a leading American conservative coalition builder.
texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-is-eigth-in-series-in-which-tx4p.html
and
When Sarah Held Up Trig, She Held Up A Mirror
Jennifer Ginsberg and Heather Robinson, who co-wrote “Sarah’s Smackdown” (which we reported on here), have joined forces to produce another thought-provoking essay titled “Down Syndrome: Sarah Palin’s Brave Choice”
texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarahs-choice-she-held-up-mirror.html
Palin’s ‘Brave Choice’
Here’s how one woman describes how her own beliefs, and those of many other American women, were challenged by Sarah Palin’s choice to give birth to her son Trig, who has Down syndrome:
www.ncregister.com/daily/palins_brave_choice
Bella Online: The Voice of Women
I think it is only fair to mention a different view that can now be found on the Huffington Post website ~ and whether you agree or disagree with Heather Robinson, at least a vastly different opinion than Erik Sean Nelson’s article. And about time.
forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=541732&page=3
Disability News : Patricia E Bauer
When Gov. Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign, among the reasons she cited was her family’s concern that her 14-month-old son Trig, who has Down Syndrome, had been “mocked and ridiculed by some pretty mean spirited adults.”
Was this an accurate account of what took place? Commentators offer their opinions.
YES. Heather Robinson in the Huffington Post
www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/09/opinions-palins-children/
Sarah Palin and the Proud Choice She Made
I found this story today , written by Jennifer Ginsberg and Heather Robinson, in shine.yahoo.com. I believe it is a very important story.
abookofeverything.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-and-proud-choice-she-made.html
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