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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[leback.livejournal.com]

That's a really good point. It seems like a great many opportunities are opened *more* readily to women who will occupy them as sexualized stereotypes than to women who insist on occupying them as people. We're less threatening that way. After all, what's the harm in letting a woman attain a position of power if, in order to attain it, she's already had to trade in all the power that its attainment was meant to confer?