So my only political commentary shall be on Palin’s “hypocrisy”. And keep in mind that I’m referring to the commentary of a gossip column writer, so… Here’s the thing. How do the actions of one’s daughter – who this country seem hell-bent on making a sexualized minor-adult – make one’s own abstinence-only education hypocritical? Hein?? I don’t quite get that. So, I can’t have an opinion about something that my child might not uphold? In a country where gynecologists routinely have “private” discussions with said children because it’s no longer a parent’s business whether or not their child is sexual active/HIV positive/pregnant??! Really? You’re making a generation of soulless, unaccountable cockhounds but “only because teenage sexual activity is so pervasive”. Has anyone noticed that the “cure” (which is to secretly give children condoms – which hell yeah teach kids not to do something….wait – and to keep a child’s abortion secret…. what were we talking about? Accountability?) is actually perpetuating the problem?!
Here’s the thing. You can’t have it both ways. Either morality has to do with religious faith or the two are separate (if we pretend it’s up to you). So either the Palin lady is amoral (for her daughter’s pregnancy) and therefore a hypocrite for claiming to uphold any such beliefs OR it means absolutely nothing and is therefore not newsworthy. Which is it.
Other than that… did you know your 12 year old daughter could be ONE LESS? Woman to enter high school with her hymen intact.
I hate people.
September 4, 2008 at 7:23 pm
if you rearrange Palin it makes plain which rhymes with lame, for shame. And she’s not a hypocrite about her daughters pregnance. She would have to have been pregnant herself as a teen for that.
September 4, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I do agree the media went a little bit nuts on the daughter thing for like half a second BUT she is inviting it on herself by making her family part of her qualifications.
What do we do with vp/presidential candidates claimed qualifications? Examine!
I think the focus is on the pregnant kid in situations like this because people get tired of hearing people yap at them that abstinence education is so effective, when uh, obviously it wasn’t at least in that case.
And the condoms come in in the sense that she prrrrrrobably wasn’t using them.
September 4, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Her daughter’s pregnancy has nothing to do with her beliefs, only that her daughter doesn’t share them… and since her daughter is at the mercy of the society as well as every other child, what may have worked is people assuming right cannot be done in the first place and therefore preaching that abstinence doesn’t work. Saying abstinence education doesn’t work because someone gets pregnant is tantamount to saying food doesn’t work because someone’s been hungry.