That's not funny

[firecat]

I am no fan of Governor Palin, but I am also not happy about jokes at her expense that are based on her sex or her sexual attractiveness. I think such jokes are going to set back the cause of electing women to political offices.

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[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

like the first woman to be a Supreme Court Judge (and the first Black person as well), it seemed like it had to be a conservative.

I hated the misogyny and drastically higher standards that Hillary was up against, and most of the time she did just fine, but I do wonder if she'd have been as electable because of her gender.

I find the comments about Palin's "attractiveness" irritating at best. and it's a disservice to our intelligence in making this choice based on something deeper than the cult of celebrity.


I do enjoy your thread title, however, and I am certainly one of those feminists that could be characterized by the joke

how many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
that's not funny.

[hislittlekitty.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that my first thought for the answer should be either "Just one, we can do anything!" or "two, one to do it, and a second one to keep away all the men who keep offering to do it for them."

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

of course it's not wrong.

and there are a multitude of good answers.

it's just that in the 70s we took our selves so seriously, thus the joke.

[leback.livejournal.com]

like the first woman to be a Supreme Court Judge (and the first Black person as well), it seemed like it had to be a conservative.

ObNitpick: Thurgood Marshall was probably the least conservative justice the U.S. Supreme Court has ever had. Clarence Thomas was the second African American on the court.

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

YIKES!!!!


I forgot, and that's a big miss.


thanks for pointing it out, and I'm very glad to be wrong.

[leback.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Justice Marshall is a personal hero of mine, so that jumped out at me. :-) I do think it's sad that after he retired, his seat went not to one of the many African American judges and lawyers who would have sought to continue his legacy, but to one who's worked hard at dismantling what Marshall accomplished.

Meanwhile, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Sarah Palin will turn out not to be the first female U.S. vice president, but only the second female major-party nominee. Seems to me she's very much the Thomas to Geraldine Ferraro's Marshall.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Upon reflection, I can easily see Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin as being cut from the same cloth, career advancement-wise.

[firecat]

Yep that was the joke I was aiming at with the title. :)