Barbara Kay on Sarah Palin.

Barbara Kay is one of my favourite writers in The National Post, to which I subscribe, the actual print edition, delivered to my door the old fashioned way. Her column today, “I Am Sarah, Watch Me Act”, contrasts her life with the tenets of feminism, and feminism comes out the loser.

But win or lose the election, Sarah Palin has already altered the cultural landscape of America, possibly of the Western world. In years to come, social archeologists will mark her speech as the official beginning of an end to the gender wars, and, one hopes, a return to trust and collaboration between the sexes.

Because Palin proved you don’t need the Sisterhood to pierce the glass ceiling. In her single calculated comment about women, she said, “This is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.”

Got that? It wasn’t Gloria Steinem that put me on this podium. It was my made-in-small-town-America traditional social values combined with old-fashioned patriotism and Alaska-instilled pioneerism.

Palin isn’t “redefin[ing] the feminist ideal,” as Jonathan Kay put it yesterday in his column’s misguided paean to Palin as a kind of multi-function iFeminist for the postmodern woman. Ideologybased behaviour of any kind is irrelevant to Palin, and millions of other small-town women — and always was. Love of family, community, country — not conspiracy theories — is what guides their political compass.

The ultimate American individual, Palin wasn’t ever committed to any collectivity but America itself. She was never “I am Woman, hear me roar.” She was always, “I am Sarah, watch me act.” Palin represents what would have happened to American women without a feminist revolution. For legal and social equity for women was bound to arise organically through political and cultural reform, as more and more women entered university and the work force, a process well underway before feminism became an organized movement.

The National Post is, like the Wall Street Journal, south of the border, what a newspaper should be, what they used to be. It also promotes the values that Canada used to have before Trudeaupia’s baleful influence.

We are seeing an historical event, one that will influence the Western world for years to come. You only have to look at the left’s hysteria to see that they know it too, and there isn’t a damn thing they can do about it. Sarah has woken the sleeping giant, that happens now and then when America is facing grave danger.

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