I am less a fan or a foe of Sarah Palin than a sociology student. The responses to her public statements are in themselves lessons in cultural anthropology, and each side congratulates itself for being on the right side.
Kay Hymowitz discusses Governor Palin's effects on feminism:
'However excessive their frothing, feminists had good reason to be in panic mode. Palin may have lost her bid to become vice president; she may have failed to appeal to such prominent conservatives as Peggy Noonan, George Will, and Karl Rove, as well as to lesser right-of-center mortals like this writer; but by leading a wave of new conservative women into the fray, she has changed feminism forever. In fact, this new generation of conservative politicas—having caught, skinned, and gutted liberal feminism as if it were one of Palin’s Alaskan salmon—is transforming the very meaning of a women’s movement.'
I doubt that the former Governor of Alaska is going to foment a social revolution if not a coup d'etat through her Twitter and Facebook posts, so I am simply going to enjoy the next two years.
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