If you look at Sarah Palin, for example, her defenestration, and high negative poll numbers, are the result of younger women despising her.
Older women (plus 55) generally approve of Palin, as do men. It’s younger women who find her a negative figure, and it has to do with her personal life:
*Did not attend an Ivy league school.
*Did not marry a “big shot” like Bill Clinton or other “Alpha Male”1
*Did not have one designer eugenics yuppie baby at age 37.
*Did not abort her Down’s syndrome baby (this is the big one)
*Does not talk like an upper class person (they hate her accent)
*Is not liked by ‘important people’ like Tina Fey, P-Diddy, etc.
1. Women’s view of an Alpha male is not a man’s view. Women view Alpha males as the most socially dominant guys, like say Gavin Newsome, or Tony Villaraigosa, or Barack Obama, or Simon Cowell. Men view Alpha male as a combination of patronage networks and toughness. Todd Palin certainly qualifies for men as a tough hombre, and compares favorably to male favorite Brett Favre, the Iron Man of the NFL (consecutive start streak). Women just don’t see it that way.
Palin is done as a political figure because younger women can’t stand her. That demo group puts an inordinate amount of emphasis on social status, standing, social proof by celebrity endorsement, and other stuff. Older women, don’t, for the most part and cross-tabs at HotAir reported polls have the data for those inclined. Nevertheless, the Tina Fey mocking destroyed Palin’s career, as did Letterman’s, because younger women don’t like figures that celebrities mock. And Fey’s key points in mocking Palin were her “accent” which was not “posh” and her folksy ways (i.e. low-status “hillbilly” not NYC or Rodeo Drive) and her kids which are “trashy” instead of “cool” and the perception that “dumb” = not from NYC or LA.
This is basically, Obama’s core and he will never lose them (younger women). They love Obama for the same reason they hate Palin. It’s wrapped up in their identity. They have their own worldview which Fey accurately represents, and most young women idolize Fey and despise Palin. Because Fey went to the correct schools, has the correct accent, the correct amount of kids, the correct type of husband, and is endorsed by the correct celebrities.
It is not the job of men or anyone else to “rescue” women from their own freely chosen paths, of men, political figures, or anything else. It certainly is both effective and politically wise to ridicule stupidity. Younger women (as Obama’s core constituency) ridiculed as screaming “Twilight” fans? Effective I think. No one likes to be laughed at, particularly when the subject of the humor is true and they know it.
It’s time for Obama as tween Idol AND his female backers to be mercilessly mocked. Ridiculed from one end of the country to the other. If nothing else, any male follower will think twice about signing on for a “Twilight meets Scott Baio” phenomena.
