{"id":30188,"date":"2010-12-10T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30188"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:50:22","slug":"palins-gendered-populism-just-an-average-mama-grizzly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/10\/palins-gendered-populism-just-an-average-mama-grizzly\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin’s Gendered Populism: Just an Average Mama Grizzly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Allegra K. suggested that we take a look at Palin-based pro-conservative message from PalinPAC for this past November’s election. The nearly-two-minute commercial is an excellent example of a gender-specific populism. We recently discussed populism in response to Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m Not a Witch, I’m You” commercial<\/a>. \u00a0Populism is, by definition, in opposition to elitism. \u00a0Political populists believe that the average person is better suited to lead than the exceptional person. \u00a0In this ad, Palin attempts to personify not just the average person, but the average mom. \u00a0Allegra writes:<\/p>\n

Throughout the video, numerous women are pictured. However, they are a specific type: they are the \u201creal\u201d women; not models, or especially good-looking, dressed up, or even business or political figures. They are \u201caverage moms\u201d…<\/p>\n

The average woman, according to Palin, is the American hockey mom (just like her), who is (supposedly) middle class, an at-home mom, who cooks and cleans, takes her multiple children to school, and then to after school sports, probably drives a mini van, and uses Clorox on her sons\u2019 jerseys after they get muddy at practice. \u00a0Palin puts the power of change in their hands because, she says, \u201cmoms just kinda know when somethin\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A “just kinda know” kind of knowledge (based on the notion of female intuition) is a great example of Palin’s gendered populist message.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allegra K. suggested that we take a look at Palin-based pro-conservative message from PalinPAC for this past November’s election. The nearly-two-minute commercial is an excellent example of a gender-specific populism. We recently discussed populism in response to Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m Not a Witch, I’m You” commercial. \u00a0Populism is, by definition, in opposition to elitism. \u00a0Political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,2094,778,85,285],"class_list":["post-30188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-politics","tag-intersectionality","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30188"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59398,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188\/revisions\/59398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}