Women in Politics

Recently there was a movie that premiered Saturday on HBO titled “Game Change”. The movie was a fictional movie based on Sarah Palin in 2008. I have not personally watched the movie but I have heard numerous radio shows and critics talk about the movie. On critic stated “Game Change, unquestionably, has moments that don’t shed the best light upon Palin and her actions on the campaign trail. From mental breakdowns, to her stunning lack of knowledge about important facts, to a blatant disregard for those working with her on the campaign”. Other critics talk about how the movie shows that there is an actual “human being there” if anything else. I found these articles very interesting because all the articles relate, in the way that Sarah Palin has feelings and emotions. All the articles in some form or way rather pro Palin or anti Palin discusses her family issues in the movie and how she was not prepared to be in a presidential election. The movie attacks Palin by using her emotions and her mother instincts against her, yet positively portray John McCain in the movie.
I believe that as a society we are not ready to have a woman as our leader especially in politics. One critic stated “How can someone aspire to being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office without a firm grasp of basic history and current events?” and as an society we “remain so woefully uninformed, willfully dissonant and bad at knowing one another”. In simple terms how could Sarah Palin become governor of a state and win the nomination to run in the presidential election with out being qualified. Since Sarah Palin has a family and she chooses to be there for her family she does not have the qualifications as the men in the election. I remember at one point in time in the election Sarah Palin daughter became pregnant outside of marriage, and in some way this was a reflection on Palin as being a bad mother. I remember people clearly stating how can she be a good president when she cannot control her own family? As a woman in the election I felt that Palin had a lot to deal with and a lot of expectations put on her that the men did not have. She was expected to be a good mother, with no emotions, and show that she could run a country. Women alone are expected to work, take care of the children, and take care of her husband, but to top it off Palin added the country to her list of duties. I agree with the critic who stated that there is no way Palin was a governor with out being qualified. Rather she was a good leader in how she ran Alaska or how should would have ran the country is something to consider. Yet there have been many presidents who have been very qualified yet failed to bring this country to success. The country is okay with a man running the country into the ground, but if a woman were to even come close to a mistake she is incompetent and unqualified. I believe that there is a long way before women are accepted into the politic world on the high scale of President in the United States.