Please help me understand. I mean it. I am past my rage. Past my shock. Past my disdain. And past my personal offense. Or, at least let's say I'm past all that. For the sake of argument anyway.

But, truly, those of you who get it. Who support her. Those of you who have voted for her and would vote for her again, explain it to me. Explain to me why, when Sarah Palin speaks, the audience not only applauds but stands in ovation. WHY? I want to understand the answer. Why are people not outraged.

Because when I heard her speak just now, of it being the Christmas her husband got the gun and she got the rack I felt betrayed. I was betrayed. Every other woman who has ever lived and suffered because she did or did not have said "rack," or suffered and/or died because of the disease attacking said "rack" was also betrayed on some level. What happens when her rack is compromised? What will she have to say then? Her lack of depth of sensitivity and understanding is mind boggling.

And if I can apologize in some way for her having said it, I cannot apologize for an entire audience leaping in ovation after that comment when she then proceeds to mock the truly damaging effects of a Big Gulp. Of course, banning the Big Gulp seems over the top, but at least there is an effort to send the message that maybe we ought to think (does that happen much anymore?) before fueling our bodies with the stuff. Her message is destroy at will. We have the right to destroy at will. At least the destruction is tasty. And not so painful with a nice rack.

With her presentation a disservice has been done to women. A disservice has been done to children who look for role models. And the whole point of public service is ... well ... service. Not disservice.

So tell me why sucking on a Big Gulp with lips that have been prepped for presentation, why mocking an attempt at weaning ourselves from obesity and diabetes and sugar highs and mocking an attempt at setting a standard for health gets the standing ovation.

Tell me.

Get ready ... brace yourself ...

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I was neither ready nor braced when the search results were up ... all the above are the top five results from a bing search of the word "wife." I had intended to enter the name of a man I had just heard speak in a TED talk who referred to his wife several times, followed by the word "wife." Instead, the way whatever is written in the search window is highlighted when the window is revisited and then deleted when additional typing begins, I ended up unintentionally searching for the singular word "wife."

And, in an instant, the top five webpage results for the word "wife" were splayed across my computer screen. My repsonse? Confusion. Then shock. Then horror. Then anger. Then despair for the condition of the honor of "wife".

I remember from over 30 years ago a comment from a husband to his wife that he wanted her to be "more than a wife." I distinctly remember wondering, silently of course, what that meant. How could a wife be more than a wife unless "wife" implied something less than, something limited, something undesirable. These top websites, with the notable exception of Wikipedia, seem to speak to that syndrome.

A "wife" has been denigrated into a concept of "vulgar," which has been denigrated into a concept of desireable. Dishonor and disregard accomplished. 

Proverbs 12:4a

A good wife is the crown of her husband ...

 

Threw on a wrinkled gray t-shirt to dash out the door for a quick trip to the gym, caught sight of myself in a mirror, and saw that my neck matched my shirt. Sigh ... not the look I'm going for.