Sarah Palin fake feminist. Well why not? She faked being a mayor, faked governing Alaska, faked writing a book, and is a fake political commentator at Fox News.

From the Washington Post:

But, of course, Palin isn't a feminist -- not in the slightest. What she calls "the emerging conservative feminist identity" isn't the product of a political movement or a fight for social justice.

It isn't a structural analysis of patriarchal norms, power dynamics or systemic inequities. It's an empty rallying call to other women who are as disdainful of or apathetic to women's rights as Palin herself: women who want to make abortion and emergency contraception illegal and who fight same-sex marriage rights. As Kate Harding wrote on Jezebel.com: "What comes next? 'Phyllis Schlafly feminism?' 'Patriarchal feminism?' 'He-Man Woman Hater Feminism?' "

Given that so-called conservative feminists don't support women's rights, how can they paint their movement as pro-woman? Why are they not being laughed out of the room?

Easy: They preempt criticism of their lack of bona fides by aligning themselves with a history that most women are proud of -- the fight for suffrage. They claim they're the real feminists, as Palin did in her speech lauding the Susan B. Anthony List for "returning the women's movement back to its original roots." (She wasn't talking about voting rights; she was referring to the debated notion that first-wave feminists were antiabortion.)

By tying their "feminism" to the suffragists, whose goal was realized nearly 100 years ago, they're not-so-subtly saying that women in America have achieved equality. In fact, they don't believe that systemic sexism exists.

A related strategy for Palin and fellow conservatives is to paint actual feminists as condescending hypocrites who simply don't believe in young women: "[They] send this message, that 'Nope, you're not capable of doing both. You can't give your child life and still pursue career and education. You're not strong enough; you're not capable.' So it's very hypocritical," she told the anti-abortion-rights crowd. Palin's "pro-woman sisterhood," however, "is telling these young women that they're strong enough and smart enough, they are capable to be able to handle an unintended pregnancy and still be able to . . . handle that [and] give that child life." (Unless of course, these young women were unlucky enough to live in Alaska when then-Gov. Palin cut funding for an Anchorage shelter for teenage moms.)

So Palin's "feminism" isn't just co-opting the language of the feminist movement, it's deliberately misrepresenting real feminism to distract from the fact that she supports policies that limit women's rights.


Sarah Palin claiming to be a feminist is an insult to women everywhere!  She has set the women's movement back at least fifty years by using her looks to get attention, revealing herself to be a stereotypical airhead when asked a simple questions, and for using her children as shields to ward off criticism.  (She probably would have cried to ward off attacks instead but she did not want to infringe on Glenn Beck's territory.)

The fact is that Sarah Palin could have become a real icon for women everywhere. I mean she was the first female Governor in Alaska's short history!  That is no small feat!

However once she won the title, and everybody stopped cheering for her,  she did not know what to do with the responsibilities.  And before people could really come to understand that she was an incompetent she became only the SECOND female VP candidate in American history.  And, once again, she had NO IDEA what to do with that opportunity.

If Palin had conducted herself with dignity and grace while on the McCain campaign trail, and come back to Alaska to competently run this state, she would have gone down in history as one of the great female leaders of the 21st century.  But she did not do either of those things.  What she DID do was to pull every vicious, spoiled little mean girl trick in the book.. She threw a fit adn quit her job half way through, bitched about being treated unfairly, wrote a book to punish those she felt wronged her, and stopped talking to people who did not treat her like a princess.

So like everything else she touches Sarah Palin has taken the progress that thousands of feminists have worked their asses off to achieve and ground it under the heel of one of her red Naughty Monkey Pumps.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it Betty Friedan!  Or as Sarah Palin refers to her, "Who?"