Palin-Envy

George Jonas:

"..Forget barricade-feminists for the moment. It’s easy to figure out what ails the jihadist branch of the sisterhood, but this is something additional. The spectacular phenomenon of Sarah-resentment — Sarah-envy, really — reflects a deep and genuine hurt that McCain’s choice for vice-president has inflicted on many otherwise perfectly sensible women. He pushed their class-alarm button. He nullified the intellectual and social efforts they’ve been making all their lives to prepare themselves as members of the upper crust. These women may be a minority nation- or continent-wide, but a decisive majority in the intellectual-professional-literary circles where I spend most of my waking and all of my sleeping hours.


They feel insulted by what they call “white-” or “trailer-trash” (thanks, CBC columnist Heather Mallick) being promoted over them.


The word “insult” recurs, and not only on my phone messages. As noted by The Weekly Standard’s Noemie Emery, “insulting” is the word of choice for The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle, the Newsweek/Washington Post blog’s Sally Quinn, as well as for The Baltimore Sun’s Susan Reimer and The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus. Why “insulting”? Here’s one obvious reason. The sickening speed with which the moose-hunting ex-mayor of Wasilla passed everyone in the queue for Queen Bee made a mockery of any woman who wore out her contact lenses reading books that essentially bored her; or who gave up a sweet guy who wasn’t going places for a nerd or a windbag who was; or who planned her parenthood because a person couldn’t have it all; or one who had it all and could no longer fit into her Dolce & Gabbana..."


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I think its jealousy AND ideology. The women who have been fighting to make womyn the heartless rulers of the universe, and have given up all their natural inclinations and comforts to do so, are the same ones who feel the injustice of someone as happy and well-adjusted as Sarah Palin reaching a level of success and acceptance they cannot even aspire to. Its sad , really. Their choices are to blame themselves for being sucked into a malignant lie; or blame themselves for not achieving more, having all the advantages of being the perfect prototype of a successful modern 'woman'.

Their day is past, they're growing old, some of them have no families (left) and they have no God to rely on. Sad.