Yes, I am a proud feminist. Which means I feel that women who run for public office should be treated equally with men. That includes being satirized in political cartoons.
Neither cartoon is at all disgusting, neither is inaccurate, and neither is sexist.
The first cartoon points out the very obvious disconnect between Palin's public positions and her personal life, the obvious failings of those public positions, and the fact she is unwilling to address the problems inherent in her positions, even when they they surface in her own family. Her daughter becoming pregnant might be irony, but her failure to comment on how this reflects on the validity of her positions, and her continued advocacy of such positions, does suggest some degree of hypocrisy on her part.
The second cartoon reflects more on McCain than Palin. That he is marketing a woman to attract the supporters of Clinton, despite the fact that this woman opposes almost everything that Clinton stands for, and they have nothing in common beyond gender. Ditto for Palin, in terms of her initial attempts to rally Clinton's supporters by referring to the "18 million cracks in that highest glass ceiling"--using Hillary's own words--suggesting that women, particularly Clinton supporters, should join her in breaking through that ceiling, merely to put a woman in office regardless of where she stands on the issues. The cartoon highlights how ridiculous it is to assume that Hillary's supporters would fall for this nonsense. It does suggest that neither McCain nor Palin give women voters credit for having any brains, or any concern about the issues.
I fail to see how you could find either cartoon
disgusting.
I'm sure you don't like what either cartoon points out about Palin or McCain, but sometimes the truth hurts.
