Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
And Obama doesn't? You seem to be assuming she isn't running against anyone.

But after a term of failures, Obama's optimism will hardly be appealing. Palin offers common sense solutions that have worked in the past, and that will give people a real reason to be optimistic.

Weren't you one of the ones complaining about people voting for Obama whilst using his race as a justification because you just described why that would be fine. Also the highlighted bit shows why we need a female feminist to come to power somewhere. You seem to take it that the word "everyone" could be construed as "excluding women", and hence the need for a linguistic change is palpable. By a feminist coming to power this change will be accelerated as the discourse of gender power relations is inverted. A female who is not a feminist will not have this same ability as she will still frame discourse in masculinist terms.

I did not justify people voting on the basis of race. I said outright that race/sex/etc should not affect your decision. I simply said that her being voted in (as opposed to someone like Hillary) will be good for women as it will affect people's perception of their gender. And no I did not say that everyone excludes women, but simply drew attention to women as it is what was significant about what I was saying. Stop acting like the media please. And no, a feminist would be the worst thing for both men and women. What we need is either a man or a woman who do not see themselves in terms of men or women, but of humans. Feminists define themselves first and foremost as women, and only create divides and problems.

I fear I may have wandered from the point again though.

No surprise. ;)


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