Sarah, no doubt, craves power and lots of it. She is obsessed with acquiring the power that, seemingly, comes with living inside "the belly of the beast" of the presidency of the United States. The cocoon that President Barack Obama now inhabits is the nesting place in which she desires to dwell. Unwittingly, there is no tactic that she will not stage to attain that power: from the exploitation of her children, to the exploitation of her husband, and yes, including the exploitation of other women.
Unfortunately, for Sarah, she is very misguided about the naiveté of women. We’ve seen this act before. Some of us have have even experienced it: from the fatally attracted and spurned woman who harasses the new girl friend with frightenly, eerie phone calls made daily, at night, issuing frantic threats and pleas admonishing us to leave her man alone to the "passed over" rival for the position you got, and now, the rival attempts to sabotage you at every turn on the job. In some cases, the woman who gets the job harasses her rival to express her own power demonstrating another aspect of this kind of psychosis.
Sarah Plain is a metaphor for the Republican Party run amuck. For women, she is no spokesperson. Instead, she expresses a psychosis that, undeniably, does exist, occasionally, within the makeup of some of us; partly due to the "double standard" Palin cited in one interview and the "glass ceiling" syndrome that is very real. There are, indeed, some legitimate issues women face acquiring parity politically and socially. But, this is not that. What we are seeing with Sarah is something so morbid (macabre, in a sense), perverse and emblematic of the extremist wing of her party and is a bird’s eye view into the republican world that it scary: a world in which women are more marginalized than in the larger culture.
There are legitimate reasons for Sarah’s anger, but not for her reaction inside of that anger. Women, in particular, are naturally protective of their children. The manufactured rage that Sarah is displaying does not square with the exploitation of her daughter, Bristol, demonstrated by the array of glossy magazine covers of baby and Bristol. The "Palin" self absorption and narcissism we see played out in the Letterman/Palin showdown are not unique to women. The escape valve that men have for these drives can be expressed without the obvious criticism. Stable females deal creatively and thoughtfully with the criticism and the natural drive to excel.
Yes, Sarah has been spurned. First, by the rejection of American people in the recent presidential election, then inside her own party by McCain republican operatives, and finally by the republican presidential candidate himself; she experienced a triple rejection (the trivector). However, in this installment of the Fatal Attraction sequel, Sarah, as a female,I beg of YOU, please don’t kill the little girl’s rabbit.
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