Quick Political Links round-up.

[fickle]

First up is ager_sanguinis, asking when did 'intellectual' become a bad thing? Short, not-so-sweet and very cleverly pointing out that generally speaking, it's a good thing to have someone smarter than you in charge of important things like, say, running a country.

Secondly, read copperwise's run-down of who is Joe Six Pack and Cindy Soccer Mom. Hint: it's probably not who the label makes you think.

Thirdly, women don't vote for Sarah Palin because we're jealous. Really. Possibly, hopefully meant to be tongue-in-cheek but incredibly poorly done, if that's the case.

Balancing that out is Salon's article on the Sarah Palin pity party and why it won't wash with women who have even an ounce of self-respect. We are not IDing with Sarah Palin as she becomes more incompetent. Instead, we're thinking "Oh man, STOP MAKING MY GENDER LOOK BAD." Read this article. I swear, if you only have time to read ONE of my links, read that one. Media meta about how the media treats candidates fascinates me and this article is full of links and smart commentary.

Finally, take a look at exactly how little Palin knows and what her debate strategy is. It has a flowchart! Everyone loves flow charts.

Got anything you think I should be reading? Link me! Just because I'm back in Europe doesn't mean I want to suddenly miss out on all the election drama, especially since I fully intend to vote in the November elections anyway.

Comments

[homgsekrit.livejournal.com]

I so wanted to read these, but somewhere I think you have a missing tag bit. It just becomes one huge link after the first paragraph.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? O_o If you read the entry in default style, it works fine for me. And I checked it with three other people who could also see all the individual links.

[homgsekrit.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it was my cell phone, then. I was trying to read it from work, since I was dead bored.

Thank you, though, and sorry for the mixup.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

No worries! Thanks for giving me the heads-up on what you thought was a problem.

[yukirien.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, STOP MAKINMY GENDER LOOK BAD."

One of the biggest things that terrifies me about Palin is that if McCain gets elected, she will become the poster-woman for the argument against women in executive positions. *shudder*

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. *shudders* Clinton would've had the same problem but she wasn't such a fuckwit!

[harmonybunny114.livejournal.com]

Point number 3 in that article is so spot on - positive discrimination doesn't work precisely because of the fact that your are putting less able people into a position and then using their ineptness as proof that *insert box-ticker*s should never have been allowed into that position in the first place, that they just aren't cut out for it. Bah!

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which article you're talking about, but I agree completely. Dumping someone unqualified in a position and then blaming their skin color/gender/sexuality/favorite color for them messing up is just flat-out BWUAH?!

[harmonybunny114.livejournal.com]

The article which said:
1 She's too pretty
2 She's too confident
3 She could embarass us.

I think 1 and 2 are subconscious factors which will affect different people to different degrees, whereas 3 is more of a rational reason which anyone should be able to come to.