The Velveteen Rabbit

Fifty years ago women everywhere were stuffed into a roll cleverly made up for us by the elites of America.
In this roll we could be everything, we could be a Mother, a worker, “it’s our bodies” Women, 'we will do as we like Women'.
All our morals meant nothing as “We Are Women.” We were told that nothing mattered but us and our wants and our goals. And most of us sat and watched and read this all on TV and in the Madison Avenue magazines. And we became dazed.

We became a stuffed version of ourselves; we became a toy, a toy for the Media and Politicians, as they used us for cheap sex, and a vote, all this as they tore our bodies apart, while dressing us in sexy lingerie. We became stuffed toys for the elites to use as they wished.

When the news of Sarah Palin as a VP choice came out last week… America took a big sigh of relief. Why?

Was it just Republicans who took this breath? Was it independent women, most women, some Democrats? Who was it that took this deep sigh of relief?

It was almost everyone in America except for the mainstream media, the Democratic pundits, and the hard-core leftists.

Yes, women everywhere, even the ones that were sold on hope and change, took that healing breath. Why? Because Sarah IS hope and change, she does not talk about it, she is it, without effort, not feigned, just is!
Why is she our hope and our change? She is just a woman, with five kids, pretty, not a model though, married for 20 years, and, frankly, average in many ways.

And, that is why American took that breath of relief, for she is REAL. Yes, real… finally women became real. Like in ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, all that the child and the rabbit ever wanted was to be real and that is what America has been waiting for almost 50 years, for a Woman in politics to be real, to have a woman role model who is a real woman.
Not a clone of a man Hillary, not a Barbara Streisand or an Oprah woman. No, super Hollywood types just can’t cut it, they are not real. They kept us holding our breath, in the hope that one day we can be like them, a fabricated ideal, a well marketed and distributed feminist fantasy.

Now we breathe…we see a real deal who is like us. We don’t need the ‘empowerment’ that only takes away from our real power, we just have to be ourselves, we have to be REAL and that what Sarah Palin represents

You see America has been waiting without knowing it for someone who is real. No hairdresser, no makeup artist, no personal trainer. Just a Mom, who loves life, her family, her Country and God. A simple woman who gets things done. Like you, like me.

A woman, a mother, a wife, who holds a job, and does not complain every five minutes about how hard it all has been, while she holds her Down Syndrome baby, a child from God that she loved… she did not see this baby as a punishment, but a gift from God.
And we see her as a gift from God. We can finally throw out all the ads of the sexy perfect working woman, the sex symbol woman, the sex in the city woman, the woman who has no morals. We were never them, they tried to make us them.

Now we are finally seeing us, yes, us.

Sarah is a symbol of the REAL American woman, not the made up Gloria Steinem woman.. Not the Cosmopolitan woman… but the American woman.
A lovely woman, so full of life, abilities, with time for truth, for family and for community...
It is time to say no to the lies that the media has been brainwashing us with for 50 years. We are tired; not from the work but from making believe.

We just want to be real, and Sarah gives us all permission to be real.

Thank you, Sarah, and thank you, John McCain, for having the guts to see that we need a role model. Not a model with five housekeepers, two hairdressers, a stylist, makeup artist, and a Hermes bag but someone we can all relate to- a fighter, a woman like most of us.
A woman, who can do it all, who is not perfectly coifed for the camera. A woman who looks like us, acts like us, and is a symbol of us.
Perhaps, now American woman can come back to life after 50 years of trying to be what she was not and will never be, a fake idea of a woman.

It is our time to become REAL again.

Finally peace out,
Bean-girl