One to Nothing
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Well put, and the use and discarding of women (not only first wife, but Palin) to maintain his supremacy is unseemly at best. The military thing is tricky, because we’re churlish if we don’t bow to it, but it is part and parcel of the patriarchy that keeps (has kept) women the ones bowing rather than being bowed to. Women in the military remain at risk from their supposed comrades, yet we continue to idealize (male) soldiers.

Instead of choosing a qualified, masterful (!) woman as a running mate, maybe one who had serious expertise on Russia, he chose a goofball who could “see Russia from [her] house!” And that legitimized all sorts of misogyny as people ridiculed Palin. A more cynical and less bipartisan move, I could not imagine.

Women are discarded if we don’t subserve to the great men, or don’t serve their purpose, as when we give a cover for what they really think about us, and we best serve their purpose when we mourn and cry over them while their own peers are disregarded.

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