(NOTE: This is, by the way, a liberal feminist blog. Just so you know.)
by Molly Ivors
I'm not going to parse what must have been the highly interesting contents of Maureen's stomach when she wrote today's imaginary chick flick starring the scrappy-yet-terrifyingly-unqualified Sarah Palin. But this line caught my attention, partly because it seems to have been delivered largely without self-awareness of any kind.
(Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting.)
This from Dowd, who has spent, conservatively, the better part of the last year explaining to us why a competent woman is a dominatrix wielding a whip, why women only succeed because they've been wronged by men, why women who continue fighting primaries when they're garnering votes are "emasculating" and "suffocating."
If women have been delegitimized as political figures in their own rights, Mo, look in the fucking mirror and your own archives.
