The attacks on Sarah Palin and her family have come in every shape and form. She’s been under heavy attack every since she was tapped to be John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate. Read more below and check out the photos of Sarah Palin high heels and lipstick.
Sarah Palin High Heels
The left, known for their penchant for ‘identity politics’, has not identified with Palin. Which leaves us to wonder, why do they hate her so?
I have written before about my distaste for what passes for ‘women’s lib’ or the feminist movement of a decade or so ago. The feminist never seemed to me to appreciate the feminine. It seemed to me that in order to be ‘one of them’ you had to give up your femininity and behave and look like a man.
Its not that I think women should sit home knitting and baking. I don’t. I have certainly had my own challenges in the workplace over the years. I’m all about women being able to play on a level playing field in the workplace and the world. I just don’t think we should have to act like men to be taken seriously.
There can be equality that accepts and even celebrates our differences. We can like men and still be strong women. We can like strong, masculine men and still be strong women. We can enjoy our femininity and still be strong women.
We can wear high heels and lipstick, wear our hair long or in a sexy style. We can be married to a strong man, have children and still be a vice presidential candidate.
Young girls can look at someone like Sarah Palin (or my mother or any number of other women that you and I know) and see someone that they themselves would like to emulate. We can be strong women and still be women and attractive to men.
That flies in the face of the masculinity loathing, anti-femininity feminists.
Sarah Palin Lipstick
Sarah Palin High Heels - Photos
Sarah Palin Lipstick - Photos
Welcome Tim Blair readers! 
September 16th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Might like to change ‘immolate’ to ‘emulate’ - otherwise, you leave yourself wide open…
September 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
A well considered piece, but you might want to sort ‘immolate’ out before some leftie comes across it, focusses on it, and uses it to try to dismiss your actual point.
‘Immolate’ means to kill as a sacrifice or offering. Pretty sure you meant ‘emulate’!
September 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Thanks y’all!!! If my spell check doesn’t pick it up then I don’t see it! Lord!! I DO know the difference.
Thanks for pointing it out
September 16th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
maybe she did mean “to kill as a sacrifice or offering.” hey beth is her own girl people.
so they are holding up tubes of lipstick??? i am so there! i never go anywhere without at least my lips on!
September 17th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Thank you Kate!!! I never go anywhere with my lips on either … at a minimum!
September 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
After reading some of your blogs, I decided to check out contributions made by you to candidates. The fec.gov site does not list any contributions but I found another website which lists a contribution to Obama for $420. I am sure this must be incorrect and I know you would probably want to correct this mistake. The website address is http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Shaw&fname=Beth
Best regards
September 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I’m glad that Sarah Palin is someone you want to emulate. I’m glad that she represents to you that you can be both feminine and strong. These are things I believe in too. However, what amazes me is how you could in any way think she’s qualified for the job and that the fact that the GOP put her up for this job isn’t a slap in every qualified (good looking or not) GOP woman’s face out there. If voting for her on her looks is what counts with you, if her being a role model to your daughters because she’s pretty and wears high heels is enough for you, well why even choose an unqualified Governor? Why not just pick the most recent Ms. America and have her campaign in her heels, lipstick and bikini?
September 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Sarah Glenning - I’m not the only Beth Shaw in the world.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Melanie - you managed to twist things around nicely. You missed the point completely, of course.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:19 am
I actually look forward each morning to see which feminist can top the previous day’s hysterics and how many news sources pick it up and republish. It is becoming a game. A game that will thankfully trivialize feminism for the leftist movement that it is.
I wouldn’t be caught dead in a woman’s study course nor ever want the term feminist associated with my name. I’ve got too much to accomplish in life to wallow over perceived grievances.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I agree with everything you said. She manages to be strong, decisive, assertive — all while retaining her femininity. She is the politician I’ve been waiting for. Someone who is in this for the right reasons. It is just a bonus that she is a woman.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:31 am
No, we dislike her because she stands for the nastiest form of conservatism.
It’s what she says (when she opens her mouth). It’s what she promises to do. It’s what she has done in office. It’s how she lies. It’s how she misrepresents her record. It’s how she smears her opponents.
It’s nothing to do with any of the things you’ve raised here. You are completely wrong.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I am an admitted feminist and a member of the left, but I also LOVE to feel feminine in some make-up and a pair from my large collection of high heels. Sarah Palin’s physical image is definitely NOT what the left dislikes about her–in fact, it would be a positive factor for me if not for the more important issues: her beliefs.
-I don’t like Sarah Palin because she is forcing her young pregnant daughter to get married for appearances, thereby strapping her with an unwilling husband and a likely unhappy marriage.
-I don’t like Sarah Palin because she lacks worldly experience, and her views reflect this.
-Sarah Palin’s views frighten me, from her belief in creationism to her radically (and meekly defended) anti-choice sentiments (yes, I know this is something where we lefties will differ from much of the right).
-As an American living in Europe (yes, I am one of those and, yes, I deal with about as many stupid and uneducated comments about America from Europeans as I also get from Americans about Europeans), I know that even those Europeans properly educated about America and her politics would see a McCain/Palin victory as reason to “give up” on our land.
-Sarah Palin, even more than McCain, would never be accepted as a world leader. And in the modern world, America can no longer pretend it can stand alone.
-And she doesn’t have the knowledge or expertise to lead at home, either. (Nor, I’m sorry, has she displayed the intelligence of Obama to cause me to place this faith in her.)
Now, I know those reading this forum are likely to disagree with some of my points. Fair enough, that’s what politics are all about. But, please don’t belittle our opposition to this politician as having anything to do with appearance. She is physically a very lovely woman, but let’s keep the debate to something much more important in this realm: the issues.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am
Q: What’s smarter than Sarah Palin?
A: Sarah Palin on a meathook.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Strong? You call that strong? None of her arguments have a spine. And something without a spine is not strong.
Am pretty sure that Down’s syndrome runs in her family.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I can’t believe that you can possibly have enough confidence to write a piece like this, you are a complete embarassment to women that have a clue. Do you know what feminism actually means? Its a homonym. Look that and the alternative definition up, write a new article, and then we’ll talk.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Based on recent comments by Rosie O’Donnel, my wife and I put together this shirt…
“I hunt in high heels, Too! And I VOTE.”
McCain/Palin
Check it out at:
http://www.ihuntinhighheels.com
Thought you might be interested. Thank you and enjoy.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Michelle, the article is about femininity and the feminist hijacking of the feminine for their own cause at the expense of femininity.
I’m not sure where you got the idea that you speak for all women?? I know plenty of women who are not as intolerant as you appear to be - so perhaps you are being presumptuous to hold yourself out as an authority on what women think.
BTW - I don’t remember asking to talk with you - but by all means have at it all you want.