I have been a total slacker lately.
Well, I don’t know if slacker is the right term, it’s not like I have school deadlines or work deadlines or any other kind of compulsory reading I am supposed to be doing. But for some reason (maybe the fact that I spend my work days reading medical insurance summary plan details and figuring out the differences between HSA and HRA plans and the thought of reading anything when I get home makes my brain scream and my eyes cross), I feel really edgy and guilty when I haven’t picked up a book and read in a few weeks.
Well, I’m not here to tell you about a book, because like I just said, I haven’t ready any in the last few weeks. Plus, it’s fall and the new TV season is starting and holy crap did I miss Cougar Town! so it’s probably only going to get worse.
But. I do read a lot of news, and when I this article and a few others like it, my head about exploded. So since I technically read it and this blog is about what I am reading (regardless of format it seems) I am going to write about it.
First off, I am the LAST person that you would expect to be defending Sarah Palin. Ever. I think she is an idiot; we are on the complete opposite of every imaginable spectrum when it comes to political, social, religious, whatever ideologies. So there is no way I have ever, or will ever, be called a Sarah Palin defender or fan or apologist or anything even remotely resembling someone who considers her seriously. If she runs for president and wins, I am moving to Kuala Lumpur.
But. This whole brouhaha that she might have maybe slept with some basketball player back in the 80’s? WHO. CARES?
Weren’t we all in our 20’s running around like idiots making all sorts of idiotic mistakes and meeting people and doing whatever all else who knows what happens when you are in your 20’s? Hell, even in our 30’s and beyond?! Who gives a crap that a young woman in her 20’s had a relationship with or a one night stand or whatever else might have happened. It does not matter. It is irrelevant to… anything.
I can not stand the political hypocrisy that happens when all of a sudden just because someone is a politician they must be squeaky clean and not have a past and not have had a life or have done any of the normal things ever most people do on a daily basis. Drives me batshit.
This is not really about Sarah Palin so much as it makes me crazy how we are complete hypocrites as a society that we think this crap matters and is news. And second of all, you know that if this was a male politician, this would not even be an issue. If we found out that 30 years ago Barack Obama had a relationship with some young volleyball player or whatever, nobody would care. It would probably not even make the papers. (other than FOX news maybe)It would not be a story. It would be “well yeah, he’s a young man in his 20’s of course he is out ‘sewing his oats’.” But a woman, in her 20’s, who dares have some sort of relationship –whatever the details or context – with a man, all of a sudden we have to put our Puritan hats on? How sexist are we as a society that this happens?
Seriously. Think about that for a minute. If this was about Mitt Romney or Rick Perry one some other Tea Bag dumbass running for president, it would barely be a story. Because we assume that before they got married, they had relationships with women. But Sarah Palin? Oh my god, she’s a woman, how do we deal with the fact that she dared to have a relationship with a man?? And I’m sure the inter-racial part is also what’s causing all kinds of titillation and ridiculousness. Ohhh... squeaky clean Sarah Palin slept with a BLACK man! Oh no! What a joke of a story.
I am so incensed (if you could not tell) and so livid that this is making any sort of headlines, regardless of how silly or irrelevant people treat the story.
WHO CARES?
I was in my 20’s and I will make full admission that I did some dumb ass things (and some dumb ass people, for that matter.)That’s what your youth is for. If you grow up and learn from your mistakes and experiences and decide to become an engineer or go into politics NONE of that should matter. Or it should only matter in that it has made you a fully rounded human being with a past and an interesting story to tell and not some ridiculous farcical made up asexual political robot that nobody can relate to as an actual person. Which is what most political candidates have turned into because people are so scandalized to learn that god forbid they are just people like everyone else with lives and pasts and everything else. It seriously makes me bananas.
Maybe this is why I should stick to reading fiction - because readying about real people and events obviously makes me a little nuts.
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