I know this post is too long...

Alright, so you can’t swing a dead cat with having to read about Sarah Palin and her daughter with the weird name and her pregnancy and on and on. I don’t really care that the girl is pregnant. I mean, I guess I sort of thought twice about Ms. Palin after hearing that her teenage daughter is pregnant, but I can’t really see what the hell is relevant about it. I am kind of into the fact that the boyfriend who is now forced into being a fiancé might be a McConaughey! I think that the more relevant/sad part of this story is that two children are probably being forced to marry just because of who Sarah Palin is.

What I really want to talk about though is how Sarah is portrayed so differently from Hillary. Perky looks, pink lips, self professed "hockey mom," and all those dangly earrings. And the thing is, I don’t mind any of that. A woman should be able to present herself as she sees herself, and be accepted and respected on her merits and accomplishments, and Sarah Palin is proud of being accomplished as both a mother and a professional, she drives her million trillion kids to hockey.

But I think that the choice of Sarah Palin is just one more way for the establishment or whatever it is to show women how it is appropriate to act, look and think. The Sarah Palin model is lovely (she won beauty pagents!), the Hillary model is not preferred. Hillary is tough and so she portrays herself as tough. Hillary does not like to wear dangly earrings so she doesn’t wear them. Hillary’s voice is not feminine enough, and yet she insists on using it anyway. And this kind of woman is not palatable to people, because she isn’t really a woman to them. She just a ball buster, she too masculine, she doesn’t enjoy cooking, she LIKES PANT SUITS, she is getting older and she hasn’t hidden herself away yet. The list goes on. And both of these images of woman are real ones, and need to be accepted. One woman’s image should not be used to subvert another. I really wonder when the Hillary personality will be accepted for what it is, a personality that many women share. Many of us are much more Hillary than Sarah.