5 Reasons why I don’t feel bad for Carrie Prejean

I know, I know, we’re over the Miss California shit. But I watched The Daily Show from two days ago, and Jon Stewart got me going again. (I don’t own a television so when I watched this episode on Hulu, it was the first time I’d seen Carrie Prejean on TV.)

So I’ll make this short. Is there sexist language shaming Miss California? Yes. Do I feel bad for her? Not really. Because:

1. She has no sympathy for gay rights. And no real logic or argument behind her conviction that two people shouldn’t be allowed to marry just because they’re the same sex. Her "religious beliefs" don’t count, as the bible in its English and Hebrew versions both never mention homosexuality (in fact, Hebrew is the Bible’s orginial language and doesn’t even have a word that means ‘homosexuality,’ in our view of word.)

2. She participates in a sexist society. "Beauty" Pagaents are sexist shit that reinfoce cultural norms about women and how women are supposed to look and behave. If you support sexism and patriarchy, then I really don’t feel all that bad for you if you suffer from the downside of sexism (ex. slut-calling) in the end.

3. She’s a misogynist. For the two above reasons combined, I really would call her a misogynist. (I do think that women can be misogynists. If that’s not true, then how do you explain Ann Coulter?)

4. She uses her religious beliefs as a shield to cover her bigotry. I am a religious person, and her bigotry is not a "religious value" of any religion that I know or want to follow. Christianity always taught me to love and accept all people. She’s abusing religion.

5. Getting the Donald to stand up for her and say that people only care about her opinion because she’s such a hottie. Uhm, no, that’s just why she got the microphone in the first place, remember?

And she also stole my name. Augh. Why is it that only bad people are named Carrie?