The VP conundrum

Mornin' all you Sickos-

Tonight we face a VP conundrum: if Biden goes easy on Palin, he automatically registrars as a sexist in the eyes of the Pundits. some say he should debate Palin as if she's a guy. but ladies and gentlemen, she is not a man. therefore, if he goes hard on her, i swear they'll say tomorrow, "he should have gone easier on her... he took advantage of her... he's an ass... it wasn't fair." if he is an attack dog, by tomorrow morning, 'they' will have forgotten their cries for him to bite and their new sound bite will call for his head on the block. it will be 'poor palin.' people might even forget her horrible interviews leading up to tonight. most likely, they'll have a sense of sympathy and feelings of injustice of what it is to be a woman in this country. for after all, as a woman trying to poke your nose into the 'big boy politics' you're obviously a sicko. well all you readers out there, i'm telling you this now: it's a trick, a rhetorical catch-22. a no-win situation. if Biden does Biden, he'll be viewed as too rough for the fragility of 'poor' Palin, who after all, has endured weeks of SNL. but if he takes it easy, steps it down a notch, he'll be viewed as a sexist, someone unwilling to hurt the porcelain sensitivities of fairer, feminine gender. well screw it, i think we need to ring Palin, tell her to step it up, be unfair. throw some punches. be a "man". tell her, if you play the 'woman card' to Biden, you're being unfair. be tough on him, come on... or should we tell her to be gentle on him? because after all, how do we know his male sensitivities won't be shot down by a little womanly flare?

if we really want to transcend gender than lets stop the talk about 'being fair', 'being tough', 'going easy'... because such rhetoric doesn't move beyond what it is to be a man or a woman... it perpetuates it. therefore, lets let the debate be what it may be. after all, politics isn't fair- it is biased. it is prejudiced. it is racialized and classist. sure, this isn't good or fair or even egalitarian. but it is what it is, and the more we pretend it is something else or believe that 'calling' it by a different name will change things, it won't. lets call it what it is and maybe then we can move on. it's a sexist, ageist, racially charged election, where if you represent anything beyond the status quo, the media and general public is going to have a field day over the topic of difference. and what is difference? what is the status quo? and are these terms stable, consistent and same over time? how do they change? and are we asking the right questions to make the right decisions? and what is right and wrong? and can we, as A People, really have a cohesive definition of: right, wrong, fair, unfair? are we really A People, or Many Peoples?

where did we get our definitions from? and why are we letting the media perpetuate claims on what it is to be defined by a certain 'box' or 'label'? do all women really experience the same womanliness?

in the end, i have not decided whether i should watch the debate tonight. surely, tomorrow everyone will be buzz-wording the VP debate with sounds clip and snickers. i fear the only interest i have in watching the debate is to find comedy in the failings of a certain candidate. but what are her failings and why do i get such glee watching her burn in the flames of fire? is it really fair? and do i really give a shit? no, rather... i pretty much want to see my candidate elected this november... so anything that furthers his cause gives me glee... even if it is unfair and sexist, biased, prejudiced and most importantly, political- because after all, politics encompasses more than the just... it is also the unjust. so if indeed i decide to watch 'the debate' tonight, i won't put on my neutrality goggles, or even pretend... i will watch and judge the debate through my Sicko, biased, prejudiced, opinionated, lenses. after all, all you sickos are doing the same, you're just denying yourself the plain fact that you are all biased, you are all Diseased. after all, you all live in this society with me... so you suffer the same malaise, the same tunnel vision, the trappings of the same squares we are all forced to stuff ourselves into... every time we check off a box and categorize ourselves by an arbitrary, rigid set of ridiculous standards.. we are all judging, all categorizing ourselves against the 'other' and thus, we all suffer from the same sickness.