Wasn't the entire point of the feminist movement PARITY?
I thought what women in the 2d wave and beyond have fought for is to be considered EQUALS with men, in terms of pay, in terms of opportunity, in terms of responsibility in the home. We are looking to be treated as equals, not subordinates, not superiors, equals.
So why is that when Sarah Palin is being subjected to the scruitiny only reserved for, oh, well, BARACK OBAMA, she is crying foul? Or, more appropriate, crying "stop pounding on me, I'm a GIRL"?
Extending the same brutal rigor, the same unrelenting attention speaks to the fact that women are being taken seriously as candidates, as running mates, as partners in this enterprise that we call government.
Hillary Clinton was NOT my favorite. But she could punch back. She could talk back. She fought back. She was deserving because she didn't duck. She could be a woman and she could be a president. I believed it.
Now that we are asking Sarah Palin to do the same, the republicans (the same ones who whine incessantly about reverse entitlement, etc.) are suddenly enforcing the freaking coup d'etat of low expectations.
Unbelieveable, and an insult to women who fought for these rights to be on the same leveled playing field.
Cynical doesn't even begin to describe it.