The origin of Pride

Jason just received a text message from one of this ex-girlfriends exclaiming:

"I love Palin! I am so happy to be a woman!"


My friends, for the first time in history I was literally speechless. Jason showed me the text message and I could neither say nor do anything. I wanted to vomit--I literally felt like someone had punched me square in the gut.


It's not that I didn't know this girl was conservative (conservative may be mild) or that I thought she would have not supported Palin (she's a female Dentist, so she isn't totally antiquated) but to think that someone hung the pride of their femininity on someone like Palin makes me sick.



This is not a sexist blog, this has nothing to do with ability--women are just as qualifed as men in all aspects for all jobs. This is about one female disrespecting all females and calling it female pride.


I am not a staunch Democrat. I am not a staunch Conservative. I fall in the "Moderate" territory and I can respect that everyone has their own beliefs that dictate their lives. I do not just respect that, I welcome that! Everyone has their own truth and it is these individual truths that make us all unique and beautiful. What I do not think is beautiful and what I can not respect is one person telling another person how they should live their life. I do not find anything about Sarah Palin beautiful or respectable. Palin has not only consistently voted Pro-Life and against comprehensive sexual education, but she wants to COMPLETELY overturn Roe vs. Wade. Pro-Lifer's must understand that making abortion illegal will not make abortions go away.

Remember Dirty Dancing? Abortions will become back alley procedures, done by Doctor's whose licenses have been revoked for performing such procedures or quacks seeing a need and filing it. Women will go in droves to Mexico and Canada whose standards may or may not meet the standards of our own. There will be no way to ensure the safety or correctness of the procedure and many WILL incur permanent damage to their reproductive systems, many WILL become ill from infection and many WILL die. Not to mention, if women do get the procedures done and do become ill or injured during, the insurance companies won't cover the hospital bill to heal those woman because they had an illegal procedure done.

Not only will there be dangerous abortions procedures, but there will be many more unwanted babies born. That's more babies born to teenage girls who leave their newborns in dumpsters and toilets. That's more babies born to women unable financially or without the personal resolve to raise them, leaving the women to drop them off at hospitals, police and firestations all over the country. Sure there is adoption, but is that what we want? Orphangaes full of children, children going in to the foster system (I have yet to hear anyone rave about their childhood in the Foster system).

Banning abortion is not the answer, comprehensive sexual education and an open door policy regarding safe sex at home IS. But wait, Palin is against that too! Palin is not for women, she is against them. She is for with holding information and medical procedures because of her personal truths--truths she doesn't have to take away from others to hold herself. Only the insecure and unsure require all to abide by their believes in order to legitimize them.

So, when this woman sent Jason that text message, what she said was this:

"I do not respect the bodies or the decisions of my fellow women. I believe the choices of Ms. Palin and my own, should dictate the choices of every American female. I base the pride of my femininity on the disrespect of other women."

Fuck you, Alison and fuck you too Palin. I cannot and will not respect you as a woman for even daring to take these choices away from me. I have never been more angry in my entire life and to think it is all over a text message.