After reading Belinda Luscombe's article
Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin, I will not be renewing my subscription to TIME. It was illuminating to learn that Luscombe and TIME believe the only reason I, as a woman, could dislike a female politician--a politician who is laughably inarticulate and ill-informed, has almost no credentials, and seems have entered politics only to punish her enemies, give her friends cushy jobs, and curtail her fellow citizens' freedoms--is because I'm a catty overgrown schoolgirl who hates how gosh-darn pretty she is, you betcha. Thanks for letting me know that you feel women are incapable of forming opinions about candidates based on their positions and public behavior rather than how they wear their hair. Were I to continue to read your magazine, I'd look forward to the follow-up article opining that men who vote against Obama are just jealous of his adorable ears.
Given TIME's low opinion of me and other women, my opinion of TIME is currently unprintable. I'm sure I can find another magazine more deserving of my subscription.
Shaenon K. Garrity
"You don't like her? Well, you're just jealous. And ugly."
To which I would like to gently remind Belinda Luscombe:
1. She's got virtually no experience.
2. She runs Alaska like a small town.
3. She has political opinions that are antithetical to mine.
4. She's already displayed a woeful lack of knowledge and an inability to respond to questions without being carefully prepped.
5. She's also displayed an outward lack of compassion and morality. Making victims pay for their own rape kits, contrary to what Belinda Luscombe thinks, is a big deal. So is using private email accounts for state business in order to hide the actions of the government, particularly when "her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records." (From the 9/13 New York Times)
6. SCARY cronyism.
Is that not petty enough for Belinda Luscombe? I've got petty reasons, too.
7. She running for VP while she's got a five-month-old special-needs baby.
8. She was chosen on the assumption that voters can't tell one person-with-a-vagina from another.
9. She implied that she was proud of her daughter for "choosing" to keep her baby, never mind the fact that she seems to think it's okay to take that choice away from every other woman.
10. Her voice is annoying and she says "nukular." I don't think I can stand four more years of "nukular."
11. Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and TRIG? Seriously? I thought Liane was a bad name.