To me the whole thing still smacks unreasonably of child bride.
YES. Because there are many, MANY things about Palin that squick me...but this one really gets me. It's like, this is the inevitable result of abstinence-only education, restrictive abortion policies and the BS that Feminists for Life (http://www.alternet.org/election08/96991/sarah_palin_and_feminists_for_life/) want to convince people is feminism...and it's being paraded as a good thing.
Also (and this may also be classist but...), you can't tell me that 17 year old Bristol and her husband to be won't have financial resources that the average teenage married couple wouldn't, considering that her mom's the state governor and all. Holding it up as a model is totally hypocritical, in addition to the other issues.
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YES. Because there are many, MANY things about Palin that squick me...but this one really gets me. It's like, this is the inevitable result of abstinence-only education, restrictive abortion policies and the BS that Feminists for Life (http://www.alternet.org/election08/96991/sarah_palin_and_feminists_for_life/) want to convince people is feminism...and it's being paraded as a good thing.
Also (and this may also be classist but...), you can't tell me that 17 year old Bristol and her husband to be won't have financial resources that the average teenage married couple wouldn't, considering that her mom's the state governor and all. Holding it up as a model is totally hypocritical, in addition to the other issues.