Cintra Wilson Calls Idea of Palin as VP an "Ideological Brain Rape," Compares to Playboy Bunny

Cintra Wilson, injects every word of her article “Pissed About Palin” with bile, hellfire, and utter hatred, and you’ve got to give it to her, she can write. But Wilson is not quite being fair in her treatment of Sarah Palin. Despite the horror one might feel at the prospect of the Bridge to Nowhere-backing, creationist, provincial, new governor in the White House, Wilson mostly permits her anathema for the veep candidate to be expressed as a character attack pivoting on Palin’s appearance and the writer’s inference that Palin obtained her level of power only by spreading her legs.

She wrote on Salon.com:

As a woman who does not believe what Palin believes, the thought of such an opportunistic anti-female in the White House -- in the Cheney chair, no less -- is akin to ideological brain rape. What this Republican blowup doll does with her own insides in accord with her own faith is her business. But, like the worst and most terrifying of religious extremists, she seems very comfortable with the idea of imposing her own views on everyone else…

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

She is dangerous. She is not just pro-life, she's anti-life. She is the suppression of humanfeeling and instinct. She is a slave to the compromises dictated by her own desire for power and control. Sarah Palin is untethered from her own needs and those of her family, which is in crisis, with a pregnant daughter, a son on the way to Iraq and a special-needs infant.

She should, however, be a galvanizing point for women everywhere. Not to support her candidacy but to rebel against the Republican Party and take back the respect and equality so hard-earned by the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.

We've been shanghaied. This is sick. We need to slap the face of our bad frat-boy date and walk home from this drive-in movie. Sarah Palin may put out to be popular, but the rest of America's women don't need to do the same.

If not, what the hell? John McCain should go the whole Hugh Hefner route and have eight V.P.s that all look exactly like Sarah Palin.

It's McCain's world, girls: You'd just live in it.

Yes Palin is hyper-conservative, and no she has not supported women’s rights, especially insofar as abortion. But does Wilson comparing her to a blowup doll, calling her a “beauty-pageant casualty,” accusing her of “put[ting] out to be popular,” and likening her to a Playboy Bunny actually undermine the conservative ideology which has propped Palin up as a legitimate candidate, thinking that female Hillary Clinton supporters won’t differentiate between a horrifically reactionary female candidate and the liberal Clinton? Or is Wilson allowing her argument to assume the same misogynistic rhetorical vehicles of attack as the far Right?