Posted on 09/22/2008 3:17:56 PM PDT by pabianice
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it’s their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don’t like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story — connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country choose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God’s plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin’s view, is here to be t aken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, ‘It was a task from God.’
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist’s baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be
the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course he r right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God’s name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don’t move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, ‘Drill Drill Drill.’ I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler, September 5, 2008
You don’t have to “try and convince them”....but, you might send them a little educational material.....LIKE FACTS!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A Hysterical woman.
Makes sense, she’s a Feminist.
Oh please Eve, go touch one.
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Dear Eve,
I don’t like raging at women.
But I am going to do it anyway. Just a tiny exception.
I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them.
Of course, stating the obvious is a "femenist's tour de force. She must be paid by the word.
It is hard to write about Sarah Palin.
Oh yes, the prose that spews just reeks of intellectual and ethical major effort.
This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical.
The new definition of effective, in Roget's is now "cynical".
The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
Well, one out of two ain't bad.
And if you were able to get your head out of the Vagina Monologues long enough, you might reflect on the fact that "solidarity" is a word right out of the Marx, Engels and Lenin playbooks, and is so 30s. From the era when soviet-funded "entertainment" industry failed to take down the American way of life. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
Other than that, I am sure the rest of this diatribe is a spiffy piece.
Well, Eve, Polar Bears have a particular thing for fat white mammals, like you, too.. They prefer seals but will eat a fat overweaning Gringo, like yourself, if they get a chance.."
I wonder what Ms. Ensler would say if she knew polar bears stalk humans for food, like cats stalking mice or birds.
Scary....but, I’ve never seen them in the same room together.
Eve Engler is no doubt a democrat.. so then there are so many things that Eve does not know.. else she wouldn't even be a democrat..
Well, Ms "Monologues": no doubt there are plenty of folks who would be glad for you to have the opportunity to "touch one" -- as in being placed on your very own floating ice floe with one of those cuddly "snowy white" critters...
Ms Ensler has issues. Big time. She is make herself very unhappy.
I think of going out to my truck and going to work, Eve. You need professional help.
Wow, I really like the Sarah Palin she described!
This graphic will stop some of those thoughts....
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