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"As I write this I&amp;#39;m about to fly from Washington DC to Indianapolis to speak at a conference on the subject of &amp;quot;Gender and the 2008 Elections.&amp;quot; This is weird. Gender studies is not my wheelhouse. I&amp;#39;m not an academic and I&amp;#39;ve never cared to take a class on feminist studies. I&amp;#39;ve even been reluctant to even use the word &amp;quot;sexist&amp;quot;&amp;#8212;until Sarah Palin came along and I saw it for myself.\nBefore this election,I believed sexism was nothing more than an excuse used by women who couldn&amp;#39;t cut it and to justify a slew of policy prescriptions I don&amp;#39;t support like abortion on demand and affirmative action. And, I still believe that for the most part.\nBut when Sarah Palin came along and credible news anchors questioned her ability to govern because of her status as a mother, when a professional news photographer shot photo to make it look as if a young man was looking up her skirt, someone made a Palin blow-up doll, and Larry Flynt bragged about making a porno about her, I realized there was no other way to describe this behavior but sexism at work.\nRudy Giuliani called it as well. &amp;quot;How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president,&amp;quot; he said at the GOP convention. &amp;quot;When do they ever ask a man that question?&amp;quot; The former mayor of New York was the one to convince me sexism does exist.\nI hate to say it, a lot of this nasty talk came from WOMEN. Women who were ideologically opposed to Palin and couldn&amp;#39;t stand the fact a conservative was coming in to do what the feminist movement couldn&amp;#39;t do for themselves. Palin was asked to become a vice presidential candidate and the liberals were terrified a Republican woman would beat them to breaking the highest, hardest of glass ceilings, so they mobilized against her, saying things they would never imagine saying about one of their own.\nThat part of the 2008 election makes me sick, but I find some hopefulness in watching a woman like Palin rebuff those attacks with smiles.The glass ceiling has not been broken yet, but the cracks that Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have helped to put in it are commendable. Every American should be proud of that. The three of them have faced down a barrage of nasty, unfair criticisms because of their hair, their sex lives and their clothes.\nIt&amp;#39;s just too bad they have to."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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