Comments on: Sarah Palin: Too Pretty For Politics

By: anon

anon — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:11:45 +0000

what i also meant to add is that I don’t believe you’re promoting that binary, mv, but the way it’s presented in this post troubles me b/c you don’t address at all how the many problematic statements made by Palin have contributed to her very unpopular standing. Rather, you focus on a comment put forth on a conservative news station by a man called Brooklyn boy to drive this discussion. how about entertaining such superficial comments less, and focusing on some real substance, like what she’s actually said?

By: LG

LG — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:59:30 +0000

Thank you, emsscot and stacy, for contributing some sense to this discussion. this post, and many of the responses it generated, rely much too heavily on binary thinking (in my opinion, of course). While undoubtedly dominant society’s standard of beauty impacts the vast majority of women, to say that attractive=dumb, and plain/less “feminine/fill in the adjective=intelligent is simplistic, at best. It remains important to remember that whether you’re a woman exec., a housewife, or a woman who works in a so-called female dominated field (not at the exec. level; i.e., teaching, house cleaning, etc…), we live in a male-dominated society! And, to get beyond appearance, it is also important to remember that what largely contributed to Palin’s not so stellar reception lies heavily on her ridiculous commentary (again, my opinion). Btw, did anyone catch Shatner’s take on her resignation speech??

By: stacy

stacy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:13:56 +0000

i think it could be true in some cases but for sarah palin, no.
it seems like propaganda to justify why people think she’s a joke. its what she says that makes her so….unappealing