Is This Thing On?
Hi! Susannah Breslin here. Thank you to Xeni for the kind introduction and to the rest of the Boing Boing team for inviting me to guestblog. Surely, it will be a good time.
On this exciting election night, in which all my dreams may be realized at the moment McCain's head explodes, I could not think of a better way to start my tenure here than with some Sarah Palin erotica. First, there was the This Is Not Sarah Palin Inflatable Love Doll. (I know I enjoyed mine.) Then came the haunting specter of "Nailin' Paylin." Still, a question remains. What about something for those Palin obsessed who are a bit more sensitive, those aesthetes? In this spirit, Rachel Kramer Bussel created Sarah Palin Erotica, an online repository of erotic stories about the person I pray will disappear into this good night, leaving in her wake little more than a deflated love doll in my closet.
What makes Sarah happiest right now is that she has the attention of a great many men. If her favorite thing is telling herself she will be the next president of the United States each time she passes a reflective surface, her second favorite thing is to sit in a conference room full of men in their crisp, slightly sweaty dress shirts and designer slacks with their earnestness and condescension and turn away from the table just enough to slowly cross and uncross her legs. She’ll allow her eyes to crinkle, the corners of her mouth turning up slightly and she’ll lean forward just enough for her blouse to part. She’ll watch them and the predictable way their eyes follow the toned muscles of her calves up to her breasts. They’ll clear their throats and adjust their ties and shift uncomfortably in their seats. She knows what they’re thinking—they’re thinking if they play their cards right, they too could be fucking the next president of the United States.Sarah Palin Erotica
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Hmm. So she's just fair game for stuff like this? I hope my Mum never gets this kind of warm internet attention.
Mothers I'd love to inflate?
Funny... but.. I have to ask myself. This IS pretty sexist? Isn't it?
Enough Dick and Bush jokes from the last election so now we get VPErotica ... I love the internet!
How odd.
At any rate, welcome.
Disturbing, sure. But can't you just see it?
And yeah, I think it's pretty sexist. But fair game, really.
Looking forward to Ms Brelin's contributions.
That settles it. I want to live under a Sheocracy.
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This IS pretty sexist?
I just read an article about how women in politics are expected to be competent and attractive. There is no expectation that male politicians should be hotties. This post simply directs attention to the reality of our world. Which is really, really sexist.
Don't mind the negativity- there's this election going on. You'll fit right in here. Welcome!
I'm not sure how this is sexist (I'm a woman,feminist too, by the way). . . There's a dildo with Obama's face on it! And I'm sure there's tons of Obama fan fic out there too.
Sexist is kind of a pre-internet word for what it is. I can understand this kind of thing cropping up online--I just don't see why Boing Boing thinks it's worth joining in with the fun. Her politics stink, entirely unqualified as a VP, but...you know...would you like it if it was a friend or relation of yours?
Let's put it this way--if Hilary was up tonight instead of Obama, and these links were about her, would you be so happy about posting?
Just thinking out loud! Don't let me spoil the party!
would you like it if it was a friend or relation of yours?
Half my friends are hookers or porn stars, so...what's the problem?
Gotta agree with Antinous - from alot of what I can read it's about her being in a position of power (even in the quote above) as opposed to anything else.
I'd be a bit flattered if I knew people were masturbating over me. Disturbed and flattered.
Its really too bad Palin didnt have a penis, or she would only be criticized for her politics. This election really represented a low point in politics, especially among feminists.
Its really too bad Palin didnt have a penis
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. You, 1up mushroom, can produce a she-male version of Nailin' Palin.
Id prefer to think of her as a human being instead. Agree or disagree with her, i dont think her reproductive organs inter in to it.
necrophilia now?
1up,
You've crossed the line.
Palin who?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. thought this would be about sex toys and shit. i'm eating and that was not funny.
This -- as crude as it is -- reminds of the old National Lampoon "Mrs. Agnew's Diary."
The Diary was a back of the book page with the reported musings of Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's disgraced vice president. The Agnew supporters complained about the column but that damned First Amendment kept getting in the way of efforts to stop the column.
And no matter how tasteless, sexist or any other "-ist" the First Amendment allows for satire and parody. (See Hustler v. Falwell for the best defense of an absolutist view of freedom of speech.)
@Dekubiske
Clearly the First Amendment does (and should) protect people's right to put stuff like this up. I didn't see any of the above posts disagreeing with that. The discussion was about whether a) people should put such stuff up and b) whether BoingBoing ought to be promoting it. Just because you have a right to do something doesn't settle the question of whether you ought to do it.
RKB attacking a woman she doesn't like by sexualising/trivialising her (though, clearly, fairly trivial already) - nice politics there.
I was wondering what the "toned muscles of her calves" were doing wandering all the way up to her breasts..
Um.. unless you're implying very droopy...
Nope. Oh yuk, crinkly eyes too, I just hate that, I like eyes to be taut, shiny orbs, -wrinkled plum-like ones are okay, I suppose for necrophiles, but......
If that's a sample of the writing there, , I won't be bothering with a visit.
Not that I would have anyway, just glad to see she's no longer poised to assume control of the United States any-time soon.
Sexist is kind of a pre-internet word for what it is.
A more precise and post-Internet word might be "misogynist."
Not because the satire is sexual, but because it chooses to lampoon a woman for (and through) her sexuality rather than for the ambition, aggression, and arrogant ignorance that have made her a public target.
So we get "Palin > dangerous woman > sex."
Satire is generally a reductionist form of communication. But what we choose to reduce to is telling. I tend to go the "Palin > dangerous extremist > malice" route for my billingsgate.
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Well Sarah Palin herself was (Was was was, past tense, oh she's political history, a bad joke, a has-been!) hardly a feminist. Her stand on reproductive rights is totally sexist. So, while I wouldn't craft this sort of parody myself, I can't really criticize it. Palin promotes a certain belief system and this is a natural offshoot of that belief system.
Besides, it's funny.
...maybe this is not the time to mention the article on HUFFINGTON POST that mentions she showed up at the hotel door in St. Paul wrapped in a towel, one time that the McCain people came to get her. Lucky thing the Old Man wasn't with them- he'd have blown a gasket.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-once-greeted-mccain_n_141394.html
Yep, "misogyny" nails it. For shame BoingBoing. Not a fan of McCain / Palin here for all the obvious reasons but this is just low.
Oh, and why was Cowflop disemvowelled? Can't decipher anything depraved or offensive in what s/he said.
Gross,
This is like 'Letters to Penthouse' on crack
I have to agree with most of the above expressions of disappointment with this one. Not too wonderful. I'm all for free speech. I'm also opposed to Sarah Palin's debased brand of politics. I invite you to freely choose not to lower yourselves to this sad level of misogyny. If you prefer not to take the high road for matters of taste, please at least consider doing so simply to ensure that the right has less ammunition for attacking us.