Struggling with Sarah

I fear women like Sarah Palin who seem bound and determined to torpedo the glass ceiling. Just this morning I heard that she visited an elementary school in Pennsylvania. This school is one of many schools across the country trying to deal with the obesity epidemic and improve children's lives through better nutrition. Sarah Palin showed up with cookies... dozens and dozens of cookies. She says mamas (grizzly ones, no doubt) should be the deciders of what their children eat; not the government. That is such a simplistic comment on a very serious and complicated issue in our country right now. And how dare she disrespect the school administration this way?

In Rebecca Traister's book about women in the 2008 election, "Big Girls Don't Cry," the author says this: "In this strange new pro-woman tableau, feminism meant voting for someone who would limit reproductive control, access to health care, and environmental protections."

Sarah Palin has blasted open the doors to the rooms that held the likes of Christine O'Donnell, Michelle Bachman and Kristi Noem. They are all "pretty women" and they appeal to an awful lot of people. And they scare me to death.