Palin: NOT a Feminist Candidate

Each week, bloggers at Feministing take a swing at individuals that make the struggle for women’s rights harder, not easier.  This week, they explain why Sarah Palin is NOT a feminist candidate.

UPDATE: Women Against Sarah Palin‘s  Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston sent an e-mail to 40 women a week ago asking them to explain why they won’t be voting for a McCain-Palin ticket with the intention of posting the responses to their blog.  A tsunami of response followed: 100,000 in the first week.

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We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin’s political views are in every way a slap in the face to the
accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we’ve so demonstrably benefited from.

First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.

Therefore, we invite you to reply here <mailto: womensaynopalin@gmail.com> with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.

Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.

We will post your responses on a blog called “Women Against Sarah Palin,” which we intend to publicize as widely as possible. Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience, the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.

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