sexual pesonae and the injustice of Sarah Palin

John McCain and Sarah Palin, originally uploaded by Celeste Van Kirk.

Sarah Palin’s appointment to the VP is insult to emancipated women everywhere. In fact the women lib trade off was the unfortunate realization that a woman has to sacrifice her family and children to balance off her career. Millions of women everywhere missed out on family bliss to advance socially and professionally.

But Sarah managed an end run to get appointed to the most senior position in the global superpower without sacrificing an iota of here personal life or taking education too seriously. To make matters worse she is still enchanted by her hunk of a husband. She actually didn’t seek the advancement instead she joined a scholl committee to make sure her children get the best education. This is beyond unfair.

How could this happen and why people are so fascinated by Sarah Palin? In fact we are witnessing the reassertion of sexuality. Just when executive women from Golda Meir to Hillary Clinton accustomed us to the idea that a powerful woman is asexual by definition, here comes a cross between Cleopatra and the naughty librarian fantasy. You know the stupid seventies hairdo, the glasses… And she actually has thin ankles so she can wear a dress, not those nauseating pent suits.

Perhaps we are surrendering to the primal archetypes or perhaps we are just succumbing to marketers. When expertise and knowledge is outsourced sex is the only thing that matters. Welcome to the wonderful bordello world, I mean this in a good way…

This post is dedicated to my teacher Camille Pagila.