The Paglia article is indeed interesting. And yet, all the essays I've heard on "new feminism" (re: Palin), seem to depend on my identifying with her because she’s... a woman. That's she's just like us. That all women share a common life experience. That the country is better than the City. That she carries a baby in one arm and a rifle in the other.
We do and we don't. We are and we aren't. There are legitimate reasons for everything. Every point of view of Palin's that I disagree with are ones she shares with my 76 year old father. He's a pioneer. She's pioneer. The pioneering life is hard. You dry your clothes by freezing them in the winter. You eat the same thing every day. I get it. Most people would just use the dryer sitting next to the washing machine, but I get it.
I've seen a lot of articles telling me why I should elide over my discomfort over things like, "pro-life stand? Creationism taught in schools? Book banning? Gay conversions? The Iraq war as God's plan? Zionism as a prelude to the apocalypse?". I only needed to go to youtube and search for "Palin+Iraq+God's plan" to know that I have an issue with her.
You see, in the Paglia article what I found particularly interesting was the assertion that the young feminists of today should read military history rather than women's studies courses.
I've never taken women's studies. I have studied military history. My major influence being Sir Basil-Liddel Hart's seminal work "On Strategy", with a certain dollop of T.E. Lawrence. So when I read an essayist go on to compare Palin with (again) frontier women, I wonder if Palin understand the strategic benefits of treating your enemies justly. Will she understand that when we fight a war that we create the peace that follows, and all to often the war that will follow that peace.
Oh, wait... the point seems to have been that Palin knows how to win an election.
I keep reading essays that tell me I'm anti-Palin because she's Pro-Life. That is not accurate. It's probably that I have issues with my father, but I like to think that it's that like shadowcat I have problems with Bible=Thought of God. Not because a person can't think like that. But because I don't want my leaders thinking with rigidity. I've seen where rigidity of thought leads to bulling on ahead when what is needed is indirect strategy.
When I hear that someone is a fundamentalist, I know how that person thinks. That there are right and wrong answers. That there are experts who have defined the right answers. That life is linear and stasis is good. I'm happy to say there's a growing trend among young fundamentalist to see the world as a trust from God, but Palin isn't a part of that movement.
I also know that I don't share a common life experience with Palin because we perceive something so fundamental as language differently. I've yet to see an essay, which gives me something to hold onto other than, "Pioneer woman go."
As to Archie Bunker, well her interactions with one of the non-white populations in Alaska has not been favorable, but terribly pioneer. She fishes, she's against native subsistence fishing (State ofAlaska v. Norton, 3:05-cv-0158-HRH (D. Ak).) She hunts, she against subsistence hunting ((State of Alaska v. Fleagle, No. 07-35723 (9th Cir.).), Whether she has ties or not to the Succesionist Alaska party, she’s against Native soverenty (Native Village of Tanana v. State of Alaska, 3AN-04-12194 CI; Native Kaltag Tribal Council v. DHHS, No. 3:06-cv-00211-TMB (D. Ak.), pending on appeal No 08-35343 (9th Cir.)), And native language assistance for polling (Nick v. Bethel, No. 3:07-cv-0098-TMB (D. Ak.)
I’d go on, but I feel like I’ve taken up to much of shadowcat’s journal already.
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Date: 2008-09-11 01:48 pm (UTC)We do and we don't. We are and we aren't. There are legitimate reasons for everything.
Every point of view of Palin's that I disagree with are ones she shares with my 76 year old father. He's a pioneer. She's pioneer. The pioneering life is hard. You dry your clothes by freezing them in the winter. You eat the same thing every day. I get it. Most people would just use the dryer sitting next to the washing machine, but I get it.
I've seen a lot of articles telling me why I should elide over my discomfort over things like, "pro-life stand? Creationism taught in schools? Book banning? Gay conversions? The Iraq war as God's plan? Zionism as a prelude to the apocalypse?". I only needed to go to youtube and search for "Palin+Iraq+God's plan" to know that I have an issue with her.
You see, in the Paglia article what I found particularly interesting was the assertion that the young feminists of today should read military history rather than women's studies courses.
I've never taken women's studies. I have studied military history. My major influence being Sir Basil-Liddel Hart's seminal work "On Strategy", with a certain dollop of T.E. Lawrence.
So when I read an essayist go on to compare Palin with (again) frontier women, I wonder if Palin understand the strategic benefits of treating your enemies justly. Will she understand that when we fight a war that we create the peace that follows, and all to often the war that will follow that peace.
Oh, wait... the point seems to have been that Palin knows how to win an election.
I keep reading essays that tell me I'm anti-Palin because she's Pro-Life. That is not accurate. It's probably that I have issues with my father, but I like to think that it's that like shadowcat I have problems with Bible=Thought of God. Not because a person can't think like that. But because I don't want my leaders thinking with rigidity. I've seen where rigidity of thought leads to bulling on ahead when what is needed is indirect strategy.
When I hear that someone is a fundamentalist, I know how that person thinks. That there are right and wrong answers. That there are experts who have defined the right answers. That life is linear and stasis is good. I'm happy to say there's a growing trend among young fundamentalist to see the world as a trust from God, but Palin isn't a part of that movement.
I also know that I don't share a common life experience with Palin because we perceive something so fundamental as language differently. I've yet to see an essay, which gives me something to hold onto other than, "Pioneer woman go."
As to Archie Bunker, well her interactions with one of the non-white populations in Alaska has not been favorable, but terribly pioneer.
She fishes, she's against native subsistence fishing (State ofAlaska v. Norton, 3:05-cv-0158-HRH (D. Ak).)
She hunts, she against subsistence hunting ((State of Alaska v. Fleagle, No. 07-35723 (9th Cir.).),
Whether she has ties or not to the Succesionist Alaska party, she’s against Native soverenty (Native Village of Tanana v. State of Alaska, 3AN-04-12194 CI; Native Kaltag Tribal Council v. DHHS, No. 3:06-cv-00211-TMB (D. Ak.), pending on appeal No 08-35343 (9th Cir.)),
And native language assistance for polling (Nick v. Bethel, No. 3:07-cv-0098-TMB (D. Ak.)
I’d go on, but I feel like I’ve taken up to much of shadowcat’s journal already.