Is Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover Sexist?
- Posted by: Siobhan O'Connor
- on November 18, 2009 at 8:41 am
Say what you want about the woman, this strikes me as a profoundly shady choice for a magazine cover of a political figure. Pigtails and short shorts? Come on, now.
Conservative pundits are pissed, and so is she. But maybe we all should be a little bit? Her confusing use of the third person aside, I agree with her comments. In her words (from her Facebook page):
“The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is…
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Food for thought, quoting John Dickerson at Slate:
“Shall have done,” seems a tricky piece of language to write around.
This makes the committee’s statement sounds more like a wish list. It’s
not that Obama has done nothing. It’s that so much about his presidency
is preliminary. [...] On
the other hand, Obama may fit the bill more than some other recipients.
At least he hasn’t actively been engaged in making warfare, as were
previous recipients Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat. Then again,
Obama is considering whether to send more troops into Afghanistan, one
of America’s two wars. [...]
That said, it’s not a question of whether or not Obama deserved the prize, but whether he deserve it more than all the other nominees. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I’m enjoying the discussion.