Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How charming she is!

I am reading Feminist Postcolonial Theory and now I am pursuing Kirin Narayan’s discussion about nativeness of an anthropologist.
During the last weekend that I read this book, I could not stop gazing the television! CNN coverage US election campaign and this weekend were full of Sarah Palin pictures and speeches.
The more I watch her, the less I can interpret her! Indeed, I can not elucidate how Palin –Mac Cain’s vice president nominee- has bred 5 children -the last one has been a few months ago!- and has remained a governor and now elected as the US vice president?
I think that his nomination is reverse the trend of election campaign in US and now the competition is between Palin and Obama not Mac Cain and Obama! How could she attract so impressive media coverage? I don not know the exact reason but I believe that she is attractive and charming. She does not resemble to any other women that has 5 children whom I know.
When I stare to her body, her face and her clothes I can not believe that she has been pregnant at 45 months of her life. When I compare her to my country’s women I can not express my mental contradiction in how a woman can breed 5 children and remains so fascinating. Although, I have not been strongly involved in US election campaigns, I confess that I follow the election news specifically if it is related to Palin. She is interesting to me not as a politician but a woman who has a huge family and simultaneously is an active social and political agent.
Having many children and being a responsible mother and also acting as a successful social agent is a long historical problem at least in my country. Maybe it is solved in Western countries but believe me that having 5 children is significantly a different and considerable issue!

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