As a 49-year-old woman, I know what it means to be neutered by sexism. It means to be tossed into the fray for how I look not what I know. Sarah Palin is being rolled out with the harshest sexist tactics available for the past 30 years.
- What woman do you know who, IF SHE HAS A CHOICE, never wears pants to work? But eye candy always wears skirts.
- When most women use the high, wheedling voice that she has patented for her speeches, we're accused of whining. Eye candy can sound like a little girl cause it's "cute."
- The accomplished women I know do not parrot lies other people write about them, they write their own truth. Eye candy is for looking not listening.
- She's been on a short leash until this morning. She has not been allowed to stray from the master's feet. Eye candy adores the one who made her.
- Master's feet? Wasn't Tony Blair called a lap dog? What does that make Sarah Palin? Eye candy.
- The Republicans hand-picked her first major interview. She isn't capable of going toe-to-toe on her own in their estimation, and she is allowing it. Eye candy must be treated with deference; it melts when rained on.
- Joe is Barack's equal. Just what is Sarah Palin to John McCain? You got it: EC.
- Allowing yourself to be used as she is doing, celebrated for her looks not her brains, says as much negatively about her sense of self as it says about John McCain. Eye candy doesn't care, but that's the only reason it gets to where it is and it knows it.
- Repeating the same talking points indicates a supreme lack of confidence and fresh thinking. She's muzzled by the campaign because they know she's eye candy.
- Women with real abilities do not repeatedly lie to get ahead. She's being cheered to lie because eye candy is bubble-headed.
Their controlling her looks, her sound and her movements. Just like a child, they want her seen and not heard.
Treating women like children to be paraded for the cameras as eye candy is a state of being women have been attempting to escape. Even if Michelle has had a few misinterpreted (intentionally IMO) phrases, at least she's been on her own to make speeches and give interviews. Even McCain's daughter was allowed to go forth on the VIEW. So McCain's 20-something daughter is more accomplished to campaign on her own for her father than the prospective VP?
This is sexism with a capital "S" and it is not coming from the words of the Democrats its coming from the actions of the Republican campaign who are terribly afraid their eye candy will melt under the harsh lights of reality.