At least she's not Harriet Miers / A Filk that needs to be written

[browngirl]

I was going to write a long entry about Senator McCain's pick of Governor Palin for his running mate, but then I never did manage to write a long entry about Senator Obama and Senator Biden, so it feels somehow unfair.

It did make me think, though, of something else I want to write a long entry about (with, you know, examples and cites and stuff): the trend of the Right using liberal tactics against their originators. Just as a donut and a coffee cup have the same topology, this is the same kind of tactic as using an environmental impact review to prevent the building of a solar energy plant. After all, just like with Miers, they can now say "but we thought you wanted more women in power! We heard you say so! Obviously, if you're rejecting this one, you *really* don't want women in power after all." Feh.

I have another long entry to write one day about how members of a group are not necessarily interchangeable. People often take it as fact that any given member of a group can be automatically assumed to be speaking for and in the best interests of that group. I think that's not necessarily true, because both internalized oppression and deliberate selfishness can lead people to work against their group in exchange for gain from those in power and/or the wider society. (Now I wish I remembered the name of some starlet I saw mention of recently, who got herself into the news by saying that PMS necessarily disqualifies women from the Presidency, and then echoed a million million online trolls when she responded to disagreement with "I'm just trying to make the world a better place by speaking my mind and I have the right so you can't criticise me." While frustrating --- how many people are citing her as 'proof' right now? --- it was a nice example of patterns holding true across different venues.)

*looks at previous paragraph* That came out kind of long. Anyway, my point is just to agree with all the people I've already seen say that Governor Palin is not interchangeable with Senator Clinton. Gov. Palin is anti-reproductive rights, she's a Creationist, she supports Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage... It would have taken a lot for me to decide to vote for Senator McCain (to say the least), and Governor Palin doesn't even tempt me. Not that McCain and his advisors were fishing for *me*, anyway, but a lot of my friends and acquaintances are just the people they are trying to catch; not only do they refuse to swallow the bait, they are indeed as exactly as massively insulted as we should be that anyone thinks women are collectively that damn stupid.

After all that... if Gov. Palin's last name kind of sets you humming something like "I'm a candidate and I'm okay!" you may want to check out sdelmonte's entry here. That filk really does kind of need to be written. ETA karadin has written a version! *cheers*

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

This is not the filk you're looking for but it is relevant to my (and probably your) interests.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

oh wow - i love that!! thanks for sharing

[karadin.livejournal.com]

working on it now

[karadin.livejournal.com]

http://karadin.livejournal.com/2059895.html

Did my best! But you made me research her, ewww.

[mtgat]

And see, I read "Palin and McCain" and it's scanning in my head to the "Pinky and the Brain" theme. Something may come of this.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

After all, just like with Miers, they can now say "but we thought you wanted more women in power! We heard you say so! Obviously, if you're rejecting this one, you *really* don't want women in power after all." Feh.

You know, I think I have some ex-boyfriends who took that course in logic.

Sadly, I have a really good friend whose last name is Palin, and I think she'll suffer a lot for this..... :(

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I once read this book that said Ideologies struggle to uphold their moral systems through a tactic in which a surface is made attractive to people of opposing views in order to better convey the ideology's view - like associating a vivacious tomboy with a maternal, cooking-and-having-kids kind of an idea of womanhood, or saying those Democrats are ungodly and un-American, if you want proof, just look at what vicious things they say about Republicans.