In McCain/Palin’s America, young girls will be more vulnerable to being raped by pedophiles due to McCain/Palin’s refusal to provide children with the sex-ed information necessary to prevent attacks and fight back.
Once raped, these young girls will be forced to pay for the rape kit – that is, if they muster the courage to report the crime to the police (despite the lack of support).
If any of these young girls are impregnated during the rape/molestation (girls as young as 13 years old) McCain/Palin will force the already brutalized child to carry the pregnancy to term. Even if the attacker was an uncle, brother, father, step-father or other relative. She must give birth to the rapist-relative’s baby.
With this in mind, that hollowed out husk of an intellect known as Camile Paglia describes Sarah Palin as a “powerful new feminist – yes feminist! – force.”
Heckuva job Salon.
September 12, 2008 at 8:03 am
There’s gotta be a better way to tie together Palin’s earmark for testing seal DNA and the rape kit thing than this:
“Sarah Palin wants to spend tax dollars to study seal DNA, but she made rape victims pay for rape kits themselves.”
September 12, 2008 at 8:18 am
Sarah Palin wants to spend your Federal Tax dollars to collect seal DNA, but if you want to use DNA to catch a rapist, Sarah Palin says, “You’re on your own.”
September 12, 2008 at 8:19 am
She’s feminist in the sense that she proves women can do anything nowadays – they can even use political office to make life more miserable for women! Wow! What an age we live in!
September 12, 2008 at 8:24 am
It’s Small Government™, folks! It’s Personal Responsibility™! It’s Freedom™! Vivat libertas!
– bi, International Journal of Inactivism
September 12, 2008 at 9:19 am
She’s a Feminist in that she proves women can be just as loathsome as any man. You’ve come a long way baby!
Also, Obama said “lipstick on a pig”! Clearly he is the true sexist. He’s the true racist to.
September 12, 2008 at 10:22 am
Camille Paglia should get some kind of award for lifetime achievement in bullshit.
September 12, 2008 at 10:43 am
Paglia must be a stone cold atheist. Because a god fearing woman would know that such behavior in this world merits reserve seating in the cuelest chambers of hell in the afterlife.
Then again, that though might just make her all weak and moist.
Ick.
September 12, 2008 at 12:06 pm
How does a grown, educated person like Camille Paglia not know that to be a feminist means more than just being female and having a job?
Dear god. If your professional life consists of working to make sure that as many rapists and molesters get away with it as possible and that women have no options in determining their reproductive lives, you MIGHT not be a feminist.
It makes me think of the Dave Chapelle sketch where he is blind and becomes a leader in the KKK. By these people’s logic that character would have been a great crusader for civil rights! After all, he was black and in a position of power. Never mind that he used his power for explicitly racist purposes. How can life be as rediculous as parody and so many people don’t notice!
Grr. AHH. GODIHATETHESEPEOPLE!!!!1!
September 12, 2008 at 12:07 pm
It makes me think of the Dave Chapelle sketch where he is blind and becomes a leader in the KKK. By these people’s logic that character would have been a great crusader for civil rights! After all, he was black and in a position of power. Never mind that he used his power for explicitly racist purposes. How can life be as rediculous as parody and so many people don’t notice!
Amen all around. God I miss that show.
September 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Chapelle made it funnier (at least made it intentionally funny), but the bit about the black-guy-as-Klansman was also seen in Sam Fuller’s brilliantly bizarre Shock Corridot.
In Fuller’s version it literally took insanity for a person to sell out his humanity like that.
September 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Corridor, of course.
September 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Nope. Oil will continue to fall in price up until election day. It is the traditional arc of political/market manipulation and a silly storm isn’t going to change that.
September 12, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Camille Paglia should get some kind of award for lifetime achievement in bullshit.
Camille Paglia is her own award.
September 12, 2008 at 4:50 pm
That’s an Pwn3rship Society you can believe in, my friends.
September 12, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Her shtick is to be the mavericky feminist. That’s how she earns her bread. Are you surprised she champions Palin?
September 12, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Wow, hey, Hoffmania’s got a new Planned Parenthood campaign ad link up that hits McCain pretty hard.
September 13, 2008 at 10:04 am
finally, with Palin we can lay to rest the myth that Women cannot be as stupid as men.
September 13, 2008 at 10:14 am
I was more surprised that Joan Walsh (who has admittedly been pretty brain dead throughout this political season) endorsed Paglia’s view and called Palin a feminist on Hardline the other night (video here).
September 13, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Camille Paglia is an intellect in the same way Palin is. Crammed full of bullshit and dripping lies. Incapable of actual thought they live on the carcasses of other people’s old and dessicated ideas. What is needed? A vigorous slap on your crapper’s handle.
September 13, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I think (hope) that interview spelled the end of Salon.
September 15, 2008 at 10:43 am
Paglia’s schtick for a long time now has been to say shocking, obviously ridiculous things to seem contrarian and generate “outrage” and “controversy”. Yawn.
September 15, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Pace curv3ball, I think you have to have once been an intellect to be a hollowed-out husk of an intellect.
September 16, 2008 at 11:42 am
Damn you Slack!