This week's cover of InTouch Weekly is FABULOUS.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

An excerpt from the article:

Though raising an infant has been challenging, Bristol has the unconditional love and support of her family — especially her mother, Sarah Palin. After all, no one can better understand the complicated decision to have a baby under difficult circumstances. Just a year earlier, at the age of 44, Sarah carried her son Trig to term, even though she was told during a sonogram that he would be born with Down syndrome. Now, the mother and daughter are sharing a unique experience— raising baby boys together under the same roof.

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[scarletwalk.livejournal.com]

So true. "You have the right to choose, but if you don't choose the way we want you to, then we hate you!" Of course they don't say that upfront, but the way they've reacted to Trig ... They might as well be saying that.

Ugh. I don't care what anyone thinks. Sarah Palin is more of a feminist to me than any of those airheads.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin has said she is explicitly not a feminist.

I think women have equal worth and equal value as men, and should be treated with equal dignity. I believe sexism and the devaluation and abuse of women qua women is dehumanizing and evil. Unfortunately, while feminists would like to claim that this is "all" feminism is, it's not. It's a very narrow, very privileged political identity that seeks to speak for all women, without actually doing so.

You can be supportive of women's right to be treated like valuable human beings and not identify as a feminist. Among non-white women - which feminists have infamously never sought to include, while still relentlessly claiming to speak for all of us - this is the norm.

[glo-unit.livejournal.com]

"You have the right to choose, but if you don't choose the way we want you to, then we hate you!"

It's actually more like "We support your right to choose, so don't try to take other women's right to choose away".