http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/09/03/the-sexist-attacks-on-sarah-palin/ A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/09/03/the-sexist-attacks-on-sarah-palin/#comment-1064 A.S. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:14:25 +0000 http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/09/03/the-sexist-attacks-on-sarah-palin/#comment-1064 This sexism has been bothering me too, so I am glad you pointed it out. It's interesting to see how the conservative republicans, with their so-called "family values," deal with this issue. Normally, those would be the people most likely to suggest that she shouldn't be vice-president because of her children. Their expectation is that women should be stay-at-home moms. If a woman like her were on the democratic ticket, we would certainly hear lots of that kind of sexist rhetoric from the republicans. They wouldn't hesitate to criticize a mother who "abandons" her children to become a politician. But as she is on the republican ticket, that's something they don't dare criticize. Instead, they emphasize and applaud her anti-choice position. This sexism has been bothering me too, so I am glad you pointed it out. It’s interesting to see how the conservative republicans, with their so-called “family values,” deal with this issue. Normally, those would be the people most likely to suggest that she shouldn’t be vice-president because of her children. Their expectation is that women should be stay-at-home moms. If a woman like her were on the democratic ticket, we would certainly hear lots of that kind of sexist rhetoric from the republicans. They wouldn’t hesitate to criticize a mother who “abandons” her children to become a politician. But as she is on the republican ticket, that’s something they don’t dare criticize. Instead, they emphasize and applaud her anti-choice position.

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