Top rants for this November — Rant ichi
Lately I’ve been looking for a sewing machine, and in doing so I’ve come across a lot of conservative (female) blogs. I find it curious to read these types of blogs, since this is my mirror image — so much the same, and yet everything flipped the other direction. So, I decided to write and publish my top five rants, and, since each rant is long, I’m only going to post one a day, thus leaving plenty of time for rude remarks, virtual flip-offs, and angry commentary (see comment section below to leave vicious insults).
Interestingly enough, as I’ve grown older, my tolerance of certain opinions and stances has gone way down. Yes, when I was in college, I was close enough to my small-town roots to ‘understand’, in a sense, when people thought I was wasting my time going to school when I should be getting married and starting a family. Ten years later, I no longer waste my time listening to opinions like this, because anyone who doesn’t believe in the education of women isn’t really worth my time.
I have often heard that people “harden” in their opinions as they get older; as my dad likes to say, “I’m getting set in my ways.” However, it is rather interesting to feel it in myself. Last night, unable to fall asleep, I lay in bed compiling my top pet peeves about conservative politics, and I fully plan to offend all my conservative friends by posting it here.
#1
Women should stay at home, in traditional roles. Now go vote for Sarah Palin (or, more currently, hope she runs for president in 2012).
I stole this picture from a conservative blog, and I found it satisyingly vindictive.
I’ve tried not to talk about Sarah Palin too much on my blog, primarily because I didn’t want to add to her publicity any more than I ought to, but here is a prime example of someone who a) Is female, b) advocates “traditional roles” for women, and c) ran for the Vice Presidency and is considering running for U.S. President, which is not a “traditional role” for a woman (check out the article, where the theologians hedge and say that civil magistrates aren’t specified in the Bible so Sarah Palin is in a ‘theological loophole’. Wow, wish they’d mentioned that to my church at home, when they didn’t even want me to go to college.). Do we see that a + b = c, with c being “a whole lot of hypocrisy”?
I, of course, would love for women to be in politics, or to succeed in anything they want to. If women want to be doctors or firemen or construction workers, hurray! If a woman wants to be president, hurray! What I really hate, though, is someone who wants to advocate for a traditional role by not being in a traditional role (Yes, I’m looking at YOU, Ann Coulter!). To me, these people are nothing more than thieves who stand on the hard work of women who fought against “tradition” in order for women’s voices to be heard, and then shout that women shouldn’t be heard! Oh, except for them. This, in a nutshell, is why I can’t stand the Sarah Palins and Ann Coulters of this world, and it has nothing to do with their beauty or passion or any of that — it’s the fact that they are big, fat hypocrites, and that makes me crazy.
