Sarah Palin (and John McCain) are sexist

[Joanne98]

It’s interesting watching right wingers attempt to imitate what liberals decrying sexism. Forever and ever conservatives have denied that pointing out sexism is a legitimate thing to do, because in Wingnutland, sexism doesn’t exist and anyone who says that it does is a whiny, hysterical bitch who can’t cut it with the big boys, and so hides behind sexism. In other words, they argue that the sexism card is generally pulled in bad faith.

So, of course when they pull it, it’s in extremely obvious bad faith. We spend a lot of time analyzing why Republicans do better than Democrats in elections when their policies aren’t in most people’s best interests. Entire books are written about it. But the simple answer might be that they have no moral compunction about lying. Witness this “lipstick oh a pig” thing. Everyone who is blinking innocently, pretending they’ve never, ever heard that idiom before, all in order to decry sexism are big, fat liars. If it were me, I’d wake up in the middle of the night, wracked with guilt. But I suspect they sleep like babies. Maybe it has a lot to do with the way right wing politics are built on fantasies---a combination of paranoid fantasies about liberals and weird fantasies about the idealized 1950s. Libertarian fantasies and imperialist fantasies. Once you live your life entirely through fantasies, mere lies probably don’t seem like a big deal.

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