…does she really care about her girls?
Lauredhel has an excellent piece up at Hoyden About Town on the observation that when Palin introduces her children, she does not give them equal air time. Not even close.
Palin spends one minute and 50 seconds introducing her five children. Five of these seconds she spends introducing three girls, firstname only, to audience silence. The other 105 seconds are spent introducing two boys. That’s 95.2% of the time spent introducing 40% of the children.
Seven seconds on the girls. Seventy-four on the boys. That’s 91.3% for the XY brigade.
This appears to be her standard speech. This is how Sarah Palin, who could be the US President one day, talks about the children in her life. Boys are prized and applauded and lovingly described, though whether as political symbols or valued human beings it is difficult to tell.
Girls are irrelevant in Palin’s speeches, except inasmuch as they might be caring for a boy baby at the time.
Sure, her son’s impending deployment is topical during the campaign. But highlighting details about the boys does not mean she can’t do the same for the girls. We know nothing about three-fifths of her children, all of whom happen to be female.
And the right is complaining about sexism in the media…
