Here's to all the strong, smart, independent DU women who don't feel the need to defend Palin

[whatchamacallit]

Thanks for keeping it real.:toast:

[RichGirl]

1. I'm a strong woman who will treat women...

...in the same manner as I treat men.
I have called Bush a chimp many times and intend to be equally childish in my description of women I oppose.

[melody]

2. No non-troll DU female member is going to defend Palin

The ones who are, are trolls.

[hlthe2b]

24. I agree.. I will call out the bigotry, but not the genuine criticism

To do otherwise, is misogyny.

[blondeatlast]

3. Who in the hell is dedending her? Calling out bigoted comments is NOY defending Palin. nt

[melody]

4. I've been reading DU all morning and I haven't seen one bigoted comment

Not even one.

[blondeatlast]

11. I'm not easily offended at all. But yesterday, there were some comments

that curled my short ones.

Your mileage may vary, but I'm not anywhere close to a radical femininist. I'm a 6 inch heel wearing basketball mom--and I was shocked and offended. That's pretty hard to do with me.

[melody]

13. You may have a low threshold for taking offense

Just sayin' ...

[blondeatlast]

15. I most assuredly don't, but I shouldn't have to defend myself.

He expressed his opinion, I asked downthread for him to link to one post that defended her. Is that so much to ask?

[NYC_SKP]

16. There WAS some nasty stuff yesterday, haven't seen anything today.

And the very worst wasn't in the OPs or subject lines but in replies.

:toast:

[Peacetrain]

21. That is exactly what happened to a thread of mine

I posted this in another thread also. The mods sent that person packing. 15 posts, and trying to stir the pot. Obvious where that was coming from. Rovian moles roam the halls of DU also. Just saying

[melody]

17. Link to one where they made a bigoted comment n/t

[NYC_SKP]

22. Any truly bigoted ones are likely deleted...

Anything like, "typical woman, yada, yada", or "typical bitch", or such, those would not still be up, though I didn't see any exactly like that.

What I saw that was most unacceptable were personal attacks between members.

I hope you're not challenging anyone to go find them somehow.

[melody]

42. Stuff like that, I don't even count. That's trolling. Those aren't real DU'ers

I don't blame the community for the debris that washes up on shore. lol

[NYC_SKP]

19. Yesterday, vulgar replies to posts, a few posts with questionably taste...

...but some very nasty downthread exchanges that have hopefully all been deleted.

Let's face it, all of us were pissed about the acceptance speech being wiped off the radar AND this bizarre choice by McCain, so maybe a few members went "brain stem" and lost their composure.

All better now, I think.

:hi:

[texanwitch]

5. Palin is a joke.

We all know why she was picked.

[JVS]

6. I'll drink to that

:toast:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. I'm keeping in real and I honor women who choose to stay at home with the kids as well as

those who exercise their choice and right to work outside the home!

And I don't feel the need to defend Palin at all!!

[senseandsensibility]

8. Are there really DU women who defend someone who

wants to take constitutional rights away from other women?

[blondeatlast]

14. In some overly sensitive minds, like the OPs, yes. nt

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

9. Back at ya

:toast:

[vaberella]

10. I definitely have not defended her. I feel betrayed as a woman by the Republican Party.

Not that I was a Republican, but they do rule over the bloody country from time to time (horribly) and yet they have shown they have little respect for women by doing this. I also have not used sexist remarks which I am unsure are coming from men or women. In any event, they are uncalled for because there is plenty on her "expertise" that is up for scrutinizing.

[blondeatlast]

12. Link to ONE post that defends Palin; just one. Then we'll talk. nt

[ruggerson]

18. Who the fuck is defending Palin?

[Martinucho]

20. You are missing the point

We all should attack her. The question is how.

[CitizenPatriot]

23. defend Patriarchal Barbie?

She's done more to bring us back into the dark ages simply by existing than most men can accomplish in a lifetime. She is not only complicit in our standing, but benefiting from playing into the patriarchal bs.

She is everything I have worked all of my life to overcome, get away from, etc-- and it is women like her who have made my journey a living hell. men always point to women like her and say "why can't you be like so and so?"

Of course, they (men) rarely see that those women are manipulating them with their barbie silence and beauty queen smile.

And it has nothing to do with beauty -- Jill Biden, now Jill Biden is hot:-) She's smart, she's real, she's gorgeous and she really loves her husband and her kids. They have an equal relationship. I respect her and admire her.

It's the Patriarchal Barbies of the world with their grating service oriented voices, their melanie griffith little girl act, who defeat feminism in their every breath.

[1Hippiechick]

27. EXCELLENT post! You rock!

:yourock: :woohoo: :applause:

[CitizenPatriot]

28. thank you...:-) let's defeat these monsters! nt

[whatchamacallit]

34. Word.

[seabeyond]

37. see.... you took the time to say it. thank you. teresa, michelle.....n/t

[CitizenPatriot]

38. oh, YES- Michelle, Theresa, we have so many women who are

great role models and also beautiful to boot.

Bloody Sarah, Monarch in the Making, is more like an alien walking among us, trying to pass as one of us, as we scream to warn the village.

Women....

We know better.

[seabeyond]

39. don't we though

i was so mad at hillary, but listening to her speech it reminded me just what position women were in by the hand of male. it is so different today. but it wasnt so long ago. and what i see being done today by the repug male is to go back to that time. i simply refuse

[demo dutch]

25. What's to defend!

[seabeyond]

26. this is a slap in every womans face by pig white male repugs who hate us anyway

it is so disgustingly and insult i cannot even express accurately just how huge an insult it is (will, probably could if wanted to take the time).

[livetohike]

29. Thank you seabeyond

:toast: I still can't find the words to string together to say what I (a 56 year old woman) feel :-(.

[seabeyond]

30. i am getting angrier and angrier every sec. then to get men on the preg threads

telling every woman who has been preg that nothing wrong getting on a plane when water breaks....

not a single women i have heard that has been preg suggest going away from medical care when water breaks and have medical care inaccessible.

or men telling us women that we should quit going after woman palin.... what, cause she is fuckin woman. and we are suppose to listen to a man tell us what we feel

angry, lol

[kid a]

33. and thats that!!! thank you!!!

[CitizenPatriot]

35. "Mission Accomplished"

and then they come out with this statement:

"Palin will learn at the foot of the master."

Oh, in case you weren't ON BOARD, McCain is the "master'.

GO FUCK YOURSELVES, you patriarchal, misogynistic, knuckles dragging on the ground, sub-literate, arrogant, self-aggrandizing, egomaniacal frauds who have sadly been in charge all of this time. And we see where that got us.

Oh, yes. "Mission Accomplished" . You've set us back to the dark ages.

[seabeyond]

36. assholes..... i am sooooo angry, lol. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

31. The only women to whom Palin would appeal must be Phyllis Schlafly clones.

[AzDar]

32. She's quite frightening. I hope Biden tears her a new one.

Politics AIN'T beanbag.....

[WinkyDink]

40. Defend her? She can go straight to Hades!

[graywarrior]

41. Any woman who allows herself to be used in a crap game created by the

sneaky, slimey, stinking republicans deserves whatever she gets. This election is about saving our country and the world, not about making history electing a woman or a black man. Obama just happens to be the best PERSON for the job. I am insulted that the republicans stooped this low just to win. May they go and rot in hell for eternity.