Sarah Palin: Fine-tuning the English language with a crowbar

[derby378]

You may remember that Quitter forced the word "refudiate" into American culture, giving the excuse: ""Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!"

Well, she's at it again. Check this out:

Who hijacked term:"feminist"?A cackle of rads who want 2 crucify other women w/whom they disagree on a singular issue; it's ironic (& passé)

http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa (If you dare...)

[hlthe2b]

1. the "Queen Twit..."

something perversely appropriate in that ....

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Excellent use of the English language there....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BlueJazz]

2. Here's one for you Sara....you are an Idiother

[AsahinaKimi]

4. The one thing cool about twitter

Is that you can reply back:

@SarahPalinUSA cackle of rads??? You are making my head hurt ~owwie.. :(

[SoCalDem]

5. Norm Crosby's niece?

:)

[niyad]

6. ummm, sarah???? did you not, at one point, call YOURSELF a feminist?

or did I "misremember" this?

as it turns out, no, I didn't:

Sarah Palin, feminist
It may not be Gloria Steinem's feminism, but shouldn't there be room for everyone in the movement?
May 20, 2010|Meghan Daum


After struggling with its definition and connotations, Sarah Palin has apparently made peace with the "F-word." She freely used it in a May 14 speech for the Susan B. Anthony List, a PAC for antiabortion female congressional candidates. And given Palin's extraordinary influence in certain circles, you can bet untold numbers of women who might once have never considered it will now be dropping the F-bomb with alacrity.

The word in question, of course, is "feminist." It may be the most polarizing label on the sociopolitical stage (it makes "environmentalist" or even "gay-rights advocate" seem downright banal), but Palin seems to have stopped dancing around it and finally claimed it as her partner. Granted, this is a conditional relationship; there's a qualifier here as big as Alaska. She's talking not about your mom's or Gloria Steinem's feminism but, as she put it, an "emerging, conservative, feminist identity."

. . . . .

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/20/opinion/la-oe-0520-daum-fword-20100520

By now you've heard that Sarah Palin's making noise about a "new, conservative feminist movement," a tent big enough to include"Tea Party feminism", "pro-life feminism" and "real feminism" as embodied by the likes of Liz Cheney and Michelle Malkin.

All this would hardly merit more than a quick Inigo Montoya impression, if not for the fact that people won't quit trying to make the idea of Sarah Palin Feminism happen. And if the fringe right has taught us anything over the last few years, it's that the more the media takes your horseshit seriously, the more people start to forget that you're completely disingenuous and/or out of your friggin' mind.

Read more: http://jezebel.com/5548464/5-ways-of-looking-at-sarah-palin-feminism#ixzz0x0jrxrvX



Broadsheet
Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 20:20 ET
Sarah Palin's grab for feminism
If the left doesn't fight for the word, it will go to whoever wants it most, even if they're Republican
By Rebecca Traister

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How Sarah Palin could be a feminist
AP/Jim Prisching
Sarah Palin talks to supporters at an event May 12 in Rosemont, Ill.

Sarah Palin has been making the moves on feminism again, talking in mid-May to the antiabortion Susan B. Anthony List about an "emerging feminist coalition" of conservative women, women she calls "Mama Grizzlies," telling the crowd that they were helping to return "the woman's movement back to its original roots ... You remind us of the earliest leaders of the woman's rights movement: They were pro-life." Harking back to (an imagined version of) first-wave feminism, Palin has been distorting second-wave ideology with a dastardly Opposite Day formulation in which those who support reproductive rights do not believe women capable of mothering and working simultaneously. (What happened to the old feminist bats forcing women to "have it all" against their will?)

Just like in 2008 -- when Palin attempted to horn in on the legacies of forerunners Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, touting herself proudly (and truthfully) as a women's history maker, dismissing every criticism of her as sexist, making a speech about women's rights in Henderson, Nev. -- Palin's grab at feminist language has left-leaning women tearing their hair out. Recent weeks have seen pieces by Meghan Daum, Connie Schultz, Kate Harding, Taylor Marsh, Hanna Rosin and Jessica Valenti all chewing on the gristly question of whether Palin -- and more broadly, her conservative supporters -- can reasonably count themselves feminists.

. . . . .

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/06/01/palin_feminism


Is Sarah Palin a feminist?
Palin is calling for a new, "conservative feminism." But liberals say she's hijacking the cause in the name of politics that restrict women's freedom
posted on May 31, 2010, at 11:25 AM
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Best Opinion: Wash. Post, National Review, Los Angeles Times, Jezebel, NewsReal

Sarah Palin has made feminism the newest battleground in the culture wars, urging conservative women to "rise up" like "mama grizzlies" and claim the cause of feminism as their own. In recent speeches, Palin has encouraged women on the right to push aside liberal, mainstream feminists, and launch a "new, conservative feminist movement" that supports only political candidates who uncompromisingly oppose abortion. Her call has provoked a strong reaction from liberal activists and pundits, who say Palin is just putting a "feministic facade" on policies that deny women their rights. Do they have a point? (Watch an MSNBC debate over whether Sarah Palin is a feminist)

Sarah Palin is no feminist: Palin's "sisterly speechifying" is just part of a larger conservative bid for the hearts and minds of women by "appropriating feminist language," says Jessica Valenti in The Washington Post. But "what Palin is peddling isn't feminism — it's a manipulated buzzword being used to garner support for a party that time and time again votes against women's rights." Sarah Palin "isn't a feminist — not in the slightest."
"The fake feminism of Sarah Palin"

http://theweek.com/article/index/203536/is-sarah-palin-a-feminist


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I wanted to share an incredibly important piece about Sarah Palin with you. Originally posted on WCF's Women and Politics blog, this post echoes the sentiments of WCF, and I suspect, many other women and organizations as well:

While Sarah Palin's laundry list of controversial views has incensed a broad spectrum of Americans, she has been an especially sharp thorn in the sides of feminists. And with her ever-increasing celebrity status, it seems we just can't escape her damaging rhetoric.

But things just managed to get worse. Now Palin is claiming that she's a feminist? (April Fools? ... j/k? ... No?)

As if we don't have enough trouble battling blatant anti-woman forces...now we have to face a political celeb who mistakenly identifies herself as one of us? Oye.

With feminists like Sarah Palin, who needs enemies?

It seems that Palin thinks by putting the word "Conservative" in front of "feminist," she's able to magically change its intrinsic meaning. It would be like calling yourself a meat-loving vegetarian--it just doesn't work. Their goals directly contradict each other.

Of course, many actual feminists have already refuted and condemned Palin's false identification. Simply put by Taylor Marsh,

"Anything less than supporting women's full individual rights simply renders you a pretender, a fake, a feminist fraud."

. . . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-bennett/sarah-palins-brand-of-fem_b_588729.html


these are just a few of the listings I found, sarah, you clueless, lying, ignorant, bigoted twit.

[niyad]

7. gee, do I actually have to get a twitter account so I can respond to that idiot?