An equally incredible analysis from you - you and Mycroft are on a roll today! :thumbs: What exactly is it about her that generates this type of response? The fact that she handles a gun well and likes the outdoor life? That can't be it because policewomen do the same. The fact that she's sexy? There are many sexy women in this world. The interesting thing is that both men and women share the same dislike of her, so it can't be just female jealousy. The fact that she was the successful governor of the largest state in the US, and was well liked by her constituents? Maybe. I have pondered on this for a long time, and I can't figure it out. Disgust with her butchering the language and sometimes rambling when she speaks I could understand, but why do they seem to fear her? What's your take?
I do not know.
Perhaps being in the Canadian culture prevents me from understanding. But despite her ideology, she is an attractive, powerful and outspoken woman. That can be threatening to some men who view male-female relationships as a power struggle. She is indeed polarizing and in that refreshing, finally! someone who has the courage of their convictions to say exactly what the hell she means. In this day and age when someone's socks have to be approved by a test group, that is worthy of praise alone. I doubt Ms. Palin would ever vote "present" on anything, she strikes me as a woman who would run TO a fight, not away from it; desirable in every Hollywood action movie....for men to do not women who even in the latest Bond flicks have women uttering "save me, James!".
But, to be honest, without the gun totin' we have a woman similar in character running the province....
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Who has drawn fire because she is a single mom, when the opposition is all about women's rights etc....claiming like Obama the Liberal Party of BC has no women!
She draws much the same outside reaction, was even asked on a live radio interview what she thought of being called a "MILF",. she was raked over the internet for showing too much cleavage - get the irony? and called every name Sarah has been called.
There again she is pretty and attractive with adorable eyes, strong willed, a team player and proof that a woman on the right can not only succeed but do so without a man....and she is "drill, baby, drill", cut taxes then cut them some more, and has this province humming like never before, she even found a way to buy off and silence the teachers and other public union summer strike addicts.
Now, I figure that ruins a lot of lives, women who think they should be successful and aren't, are going to hate her. Unattractive women will despise her, and the men who tolerate them know better than NOT to hate her, although I suspect many wonder about that cleavage.
She is a hockey mom, was raked because she had to miss local debates because her son was playing....now that really has to piss off the women and men on the left....they have been saying single moms need all this help and aren't getting it. She is a former successful radio talk show host, annoying as hell...but that has to stir some resentments..
So I see it a kind of the same thing with Sarah, she breaks their cleverly constructed mold of what they say it is, and is scary powerful ..
but too, perhaps again because the deadly wilderness in less than a half hour's drive from my door, I kind of like the idea of a woman who can shoot to kill....we have 1,200 lb black bears in our back yards sometimes...and Grizzlies not that far a drive. And i encouraged my daughters to play hockey, the Canadian way, open checks, elbows etc.....so I kind of favor strong women.