Sarah Palin – Role Model for All Feminists

The following was posted as a comment at HuffPost, in response to an article written, unfortunately, by a woman. The article was called “Sarah Palin – Role Model for Anti-Feminists”

Comment: Women will get nowhere as long as people like you seem to think you own the definition of Feminism. Being a Feminist is about wanting to improve life for all women, to improve our representation at every level. Important steps forward for all women can be made by any woman, even a Republican. We need to join together around what unites us and stop tearing each other down. Posts like yours serve only to keep those who think like you from seeing that Palin is raising visibility for all of us. You don’t have to agree with her positions to appreciate that there is a new leader on the stage in the U.S. and it is a woman. That is exciting.

Many of us who consider ourselves Feminists believe she joins Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and other visible women leaders. She is not in competition with them or undercutting them. She is one of them. She is one of us. Perhaps one day you will let go of your partisanship and last century’s definition of what it means to be a feminist, and embrace other women, rather than cut them down.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Palin on Greta van Sustern’s show

Letting the cameras roll, Greta allowed us to watch and listen to long, unedited dialogues between herself and Governor Sarah Palin.

What a far different vision we got of this calm, intelligent, and engaging person than the cobbed-together-to-make-her-look-bad “interviews” offered by Gibson and Couric. Transcripts of the actual interviews show how badly those “shots” were taken out of context, with the purpose of making her look foolish.

Anyone who used those bogus interviews as the basis of forming an opinion of Sarah Palin owes it to themselves to visit the Fox link above, or watch and see for themselves. You were had.

We must become more discerning, and give other women the benefit of the doubt, especially when it comes to what the mainstream media tells us or shows us.

Any representation of a woman that seems more like a caricature than a real person needs to be viewed with a jaded eye. It’s probably bogus. This is how women are portrayed too often – to look confused, foolish, and uninformed. Don’t buy it anymore, people. Don’t let the media control how we experience other women. Do some research and decide for yourself!