feminist icon?

so derek received the economist in the mail today...as i glanced at it knowing i would read it tonight, my eyes saw the very top splash of magazine insides and it read: palin feminist icon
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i think i sat there stumped for a few minutes wondering how the author of this article could call palin an ICON?

i had to go and run two miles just to process how this author could use the word feminist for palin - as if she is a member of the club...now granted, i grew up believing that feminist was a dirty word...palin is just the kind of woman the men i grew up with would want me to emulate...i grew up in a society where women were always beneath men and highly respected for behaving this way...eventually the shroud came undone...to move out of that sort of mind frame was difficult...i still have aunts and uncles that think i am going to hell for being an ordained minister...

back to palin...let's see...derek has a great theory on why she is the vp nominee...he thinks that if obama would have picked hillary - then there is no way in hell mccain would have chosen palin...it sucks that we had to make the first move - and we played it safe...the thing is - how can a strategical pick (palin) be an iconic issue? don't you have to do something first? be something first? you can't be an icon to something you don't believe in...or can you?

the title of the article is "the triumph of feminism"...i personally see no triumph in this...how can someone who offers nothing but posting a position be iconic to the liberation from patriarchy? what is sad is that on saturday night live - amy p. did a great job of summing up what feminism did to hillary...THAT is an icon...i'm not saying she is a saint - but seriously? if progressive women aren't going to shatter the ceiling - god forbid people think that palin is doing it? she is not shattering anything that a group of men didn't shatter for the sake of the party...it has nothing to do with women or women's rights or women's equality...it's all about the strategy...how can that be a freakin' triumph?

so i think she is a strategic icon* - but a feminist icon? hell no...



*termed only because i believe she was chosen out of a desperate strategy...