Philly Women: In Palin Nation?
Cassidy Hartmann, contributing writer at PW, took the streets to find out. Check Video here.
Above: Get a “Happy Uterus” (via Rare Bird Finds) while you still can! There’s a chance supplies will be limited soon.
Abortion Offer to Bristol Palin
OK, so even though there’s some horrendous PhotoShopping going on here (of which I’m a fan), comedian Doug Stanhope’s text is worth reading: he’s making Bristol Palin an offer she just might refuse.
“Tough as nails”
eBay hucksters = el-oh-els galore!
Check out this “Sarah Palin, Black Ice” brand clear nail polish by Sandra Lee on sale for $24.99.
The romance copy asks: “How does Sarah keep those nails so strong and looking so beautiful???”
Note the three–not one, not two, but three–question marks. I almost hurt my forehead as they knitted deeper and deeper toward my nose as each question mark came into my consciousness.
Biz card/birth control pills/weed stash!
Only $15.49! Cute!
Item of note: handy-dandy place to hide your marijuana–only when it’s legal of course!–or your birth control pills because who knows? You can’t find them, you miss a few days, you get it on, and by the time you get knocked up, Roe V. Wade could be overturned and you could be forced to have a baby to shove in Cindy McCain’s arms to “humanize” her for the American public.
Stock up!
Palin comparison: Steinem calls BS
I posted a picture of the she-wolf in sheepishly wolf-like clothing chilling with a throw-bear (head included: for what is the purpose of killing for decor without gazing into the replacement marbles plugged into the eye sockets?) last week.
Apartment therapy posted a much clearer picture that–bonus!–includes the huge Alaskan crab sculpture thing on her glass table, which, I admit, I kind of dig. Reminds me of all that Dali lobster schwag at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art back when.
Take this Hot or Not? Quiz on Apartment Therapy about the decor. So far, AT’s media-cosmopolitan-elitist readers are saying it’s NOT hot.
Then read Gloria Steinem’s op-ed in the L.A. Times about Sarah Palin. The subtitle is Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. to give you a hint of where Gloria’s headed here.
Speed-read skim of the article below. I speed-read skim, so you don’t have to.
Bonus picture of Gloria Steinem to bleach out the Sarah Palin, until I have time later this week to assemble an ICON post for Gloria.
But here is even better news: It won’t work
the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh,
“Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
I defend her right to be wrong
despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax.
“God, guns and gays”
a belief that women can’t tell the difference between form and content
someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.
She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality
disbelieves global warming
increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions
I don’t doubt her sincerity.
she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child.
invite government into the wombs of women.
Whiter shade of Palin
From an article on Sarah in the L.A. Times a few days back:
“And perhaps because she is a woman — a former beauty queen at that — in an exceedingly macho state, not everyone has taken her seriously. Her schoolmarm look, she has said, was developed as a defense against just that attitude.”
Time has the goods on what people are searching for in the privacy of their little googleboxes, like “Sarah Palin bikini photos” and so on. People! They’re so predictable.
My inane and prurient interest had to do with her glasses. It’s 2008, no one needs glasses. We’ve forever altered natural selection, where those with flawed eyesight would slowly starve for not being able to see predators and unable to see the literal low-hanging fruit well enough to grab it.
We wondered: Is she simply seeking the smart look? Or trying to offset her prettiness?
Palin with dead bear. Wearing glasses.
Palin wearing unidentified animal corpse. Wearing glasses.
The internet shows me I’m not alone in these dark hours. While I thought I was keyboard tapping alone, it was then I saw others pecking away for me.
According to the Red Electric, Advertising Age polled readers on which party was marketing their candidate most effectively. They go on to make McLuhan-ist arguments about Palin’s glasses, which got my anthropological heart whirring. It dissolves, but worth having a look.
The L.A. Times looks at the shape of the new specs she’s wearing and predicts a copycat trend.
The googlehunt lead to US Magazine, where a post about some shit someone on Project Runway said about Sarah’s glasses rattles a comment gallery brimming with the exact, delicious brand of idiocy you’d expect.
Diversion. Speed-read highlights for the click-through shy!
“Nina, maybe she’ll get some glasses that are more to your liking, but the only catch is that you need to “lose” that big old horsey-mouth.”
“I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOU LOWER 48ERS DOGGING ON MY STATE! WE DONT EAT MOOSE ALL THE TIME!”
“Well, I’ve always thought Obama looked like a Muslim terrorist… oh WAIT, he IS a Muslim terrorist.”
“If Palin is gonna wear those hideous glasses she needs to get a pair of windshield wipers for them. They are almost as ugly as McLame.”
“she looks like tammy faye baker” (Ed note: RIP)
“sarah always looks very tasteful and classy and her glasses are cute so lay off nina you ugly witch”
“Your interview was very enlightening and if your mag was the only one on the stands… I wouldn’t buy it.”
“I will NEVER buy your magazine again! You have lost a woman reader, and an avid purchaser of US Weekly for your HORRIBLE cover on Gov. Palin. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Yall are all HIPOCRYTS. Yall need to quiet goissping about everyboby else and worry about your on problems. Get a life.”
“Her glasses are great and she doesn’t need to lose them – glasses are in big time!”
“SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE GOT THOSE GLASSES AT WAL-MART…ALASKA, HAHA”
“Bristol is easy. But, this dude still doesn’t want her:)”
“SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS
SARAH PALIN’S GLASSES LOOK LIKE SHE GOT THEM AT SALE RACK AT LENS CRAFTERS”
Look for an “Obsessed: US Magazine comment gallery” coming soon.