Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following. Please, go and read.
- Current Location:the big desk
- I'm feeling:
hopeful
- I'm listening to:silence
Comments
Eve said:
>>>It is hard to write about Sarah Palin.
>> This is why the Sarah Palin choice
>> was all the more insidious and cynical.
>> The people who made this choice
>> count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
>> But everything Sarah Palin believes in
>> and practices is antithetical to Feminism
I've thought for many, many years that this hesitation on the part of feminists to write negatively about other women is a trap and a huge blind spot. A blind spot, because it assumes a commonality based on nothing more than gender. A trap, because it allows people like Palin to exploit this as a weakness.
I guess it's from my perspective, having grown up in the reddest part of a red state, and having parents who practically worshipped Phyllis Schlafly, but I know these people, I understand how they think and how dangerous their mindset can be, and how they will continually vote against their own best interests when rightwing politicians throw out their code words.
I hope we make it through all of this and that Obama wins this election. I don't know if the world can afford the alternative.