Did Gov Palin so explode the heads of the progressive elites with her blue collar background, lack of Ivy League pedigree , and five children (one of whom should never have been born per the progressive's playbook) that the successful-woman template as defined by the left is now in jeopardy?
Judith Warner of the New York Times has put Sarah Palin on the poster for all that is wrong with American culture re: women's status. From her article, "This is why Palin — in her down-home aw-shucks posturing — is the 21st-century face of the backlash against women’s progress. " In context, Warner believes that 'thinking women' pose a threat men and traditional women and are the object of increasing attack in our society. By making this statement, Warner assumes Palin is not thinking, but that has been the Mallick-Dowd hate-filled narrative from the beginning. Palin has not sufficiently thrown off 'teh patriarchy' by only going to Idaho State and joining the Republicans.
What is really kooky about the article is that Warner is trying to defend a university professor who left her 5 children at the mall so she could rest...in an incident which happened in 2007. Warner's hate for Sara Palin compels her to write the governor into the piece. Because this woman has a PhD and is not down-home and you-betcha, she was treated harshly? Seems to me this Warner can find a bogey-man under any rock she turns over which is a sad commentary on Judith's state of mind. I cannot imagine Sara Palin opposing any of Warner's success or rights to equality save for abortion, and that is Palin's real sin against the sisterhood (well besides joining the Republicans which is teh Patriarchy).
If I were to speculate about Ms Warner's American paradigm, it would be:
1. The USA is a country of systematic oppression through racism and sexism.
2. Minorities and women can only succeed when the oppressors are brought to heal by the government.
3. The oppressive classes must be constantly scrutinized because through shift and graft, they will seek to turn back the clocks of equality and put people 'in their place.'
4. There are code words that represent oppression eg. responsibility, character, small town values, family values, etc.
5. People like Sarah Palin get where they are, not through hard work, but because they are acceptable to the oppressors and are a token only to deflect criticism.
6. Ms Warner sees her duty to fight a war against a political enemy that is constantly lurking in the shadows, pulling the strings of power.
7. Ms Warner thinks it is society's greatest fault that people do not think like she does and this fact points to the embedded oppression.
I find it sad that Ms Warner is trapped in a world of suspicion and cannot see that the USA has afforded people like Oprah Winfrey, a product of the worst Chicago had to offer in public housing, to become the most powerful woman in media. Or, growing up in segregated Mississippi, Condi Rice can earn a PhD and become Secretary of State. And why is Sara Palin as governor a failure for the womyn? Because she chose a different path, outside of the progressive formula.
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