Well, there is a big difference between talking about the idea of someone sexualizing a politician and someone making fun of a politician for necrobestiality they did in college. People don’t sexualize Hameron’s incident (or, I assume very few do). Maybe that’s not fair. If Celine Dion became a right-wing ideologue and someone said, “She should go back to singing” then it could be that the person loved Dion’s singing and meant nothing disparaging by it. But sexualizing people (especially women) has a special place in our sexually repressed culture.
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Not by much. Again, it misses the point I have made already, that there is already a commercially produced adult film subgenre in existence which is sexualizing said politician. The purposes of which having absolutely nothing to do with her views (or even considering her in a negative light).
Am I the only one familiar with the Nailin Palin films?
You seem to be the only fan of them here.
Is she in them? Does she endorse them?
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Dude not even with my worst enemies dick would I do that.
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I guess. My libido goes down some really weird places. 
They use a porn parody lookalike. Palin hasn’t denounced them.
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But that’s a completely different thing than Hameron, right? I don’t even think that doing porn is a bad thing, and I wouldn’t count past porn work against someone if they were running for office. But saying she should “go back to porn” comes across like saying that people who made a porn parody of her somehow influence how we ought to think of her.
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But saying she should “go back to porn” comes across like saying that
people who made a porn parody of her somehow influence how we ought to
think of her.
Actually its saying how the people who made a porn parody have already influenced how we think of her.
I am not going to live that comment down, right? 
I think your original comment was meant to be casually flippant, but came off as sexist.
The tendency to want to turn any successful and/or prominent woman into a sex object influenced the “parody” movie. The movie reinforces and normalizes that tendency.
I’m not going to say that you’re factually incorrect. I will say that I believe that we can do better.
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Well, it hadn’t influenced the way I thought of her. I wasn’t even aware that those existed (though if you’d just asked me if they did I would have put my money down on “yes” because I wasn’t born yesterday). I guess one of my worries is that it wouldn’t influence the way that many people think of her because they already thought of her “that way.” (i.e., as a sex object for their ‘say Republican things’ fetish)
Anyway, obviously many people here thought the comment came across as a sexist - that is, that it derived its humour from a sexist culture that we don’t like all that much. I think we are capable of separating that from the person who said it, but I hope you can see where we are coming from.
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Ah, yes, the “unsex me now” school of politics. After all, it really is a job for ________.
The thought of Sarah Palin being called upon to endorse anyone, I just can’t wrap my head around it.
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I’m told that their banjo-dueling talent is a force to be reckoned with.
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