Willow Palin Makes Herself Fair Game

on November 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM

Congratulations Willow Palin! The country now hates you even more than your sister's dancing.

The middle child of Sarah Palin let loose a string of gay slurs on her Facebook page this week, ostensibly to quiet detractors who were bashing her mother's new TLC reality show. And she successfully shed the protective shield she's been sporting since the whole country went all mama grizzly over David Letterman quipping about her sex life a year and a half ago.

She was a minor then and a minor now, so what's changed?

Simple: A year and a half ago, she was an innocent 14-year-old who had done nothing to inspire a vaguely pedo-like comment about her sex life. This time, Willow made the first move.

In Facebook screenshots uncovered by TMZ, she's shown to have gone out guns blazing on Tre, a fellow student in Wasilla, Alaska, whose status insulted her mom's TV show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

In her first attack, Willow says, "Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting ... My sister had a kid and is still hot." She follows it up by referring to Tre as a "faggot."

They may be common terms used by the average 16-year-old as Palin's fan club has been quick to point out, but her timing couldn't be any worse. The rash of gay teen suicides followed by the very public outcry against bullying has been nationwide. It's hard to believe that hasn't stretched to Wasilla too. Or that Willow hasn't seen a TV news broadcast or a website. She knows it's wrong. All kids, at the heart of it, know it's wrong.

And as a politician who has been admired for her mastery of social media, it's hard to believe Sarah Palin didn't teach her daughter the power of your words on Facebook. Once they're out there, they're public record.

You can be arrested for things you've put up on Facebook. You can be flamed for things you put up on Facebook. And Willow Palin has just made herself fair game.

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About the author Jeanne Sager

writes articles for The Stir by day, slays closet monsters and bounds through bedtime stories with her elementary schooler by night. Diet Pepsi courses through her veins. The Phineas and Ferb soundtrack reverberates through her brain.

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Comments (49)

Facebook comment from Kimberly Virga

on Nov 17, 2010 at 10:18 AM

I find it pretty sad that you are attacking a 14 year old girl like that. Yes, her language is derrogatory and immature, but, uh, she is FOURTEEN. Who the hell would take her seriously? Because she's Sarah Palin's daughter? It's a crime enough that kids of hollywood stars and politicians have to live under such a microscope that they can't even say "Boo." I am sure her mother has warned her and told her about the implications of what you say- unfortunately, teenagers aren't too good at listening. Pretty much every teen or pre teen says things such as , "You're so gay" or whatever; it's common lingo between kids, and it isn't necessarily a 'gay hate slur' or whatever you want to call it. Obviously she was having a tiff with some other dumb kid. Get over it, save the drama and big guns for when she is twenty five and writes a blog about why she hates gay people. Seriously. THAT will be a problem; not this.

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billsfan1104

on Nov 17, 2010 at 10:33 AM

Omg, a lot of kids say worse. So you are going to beat up on a 14-yr old kid, simply because she is Sarah Palins daughter. If it was any other 14yr old kid, you wouldnt say shit.

hoticedcoffee

on Nov 17, 2010 at 10:35 AM

Even though her comments are unacceptable, she's still a child, and was spouting off to another child. You, on the other hand, are an adult, and your rally cry that she "made herself fair game" makes me wonder about your maturity and morals. The fact that her mother is a public figure that you don't like doesn't make it OK to go after her kid.

Nonmember comment from stupid palin

on Nov 17, 2010 at 10:40 AM

she is 16 now you idiots.

katherine.pryde

please just make this entire family disappear into the wilds of alaska again. i am so tired of seeing them all over my media. i don't care, i dislike the whole clan.

MadelynMc

on Nov 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM

Can we please stop giving this fame-seeking family attention so they will go away? If we make a story out of it everytime they get coffee, forget to turn in their homework, appear in public and otherwise lead an uneventful life they will continue to be famous for doing nothing. I don't know how much more Palin I can take. Let it die, already.

Jill_W

on Nov 17, 2010 at 11:07 AM

So a lot of kids say worse, and that makes it ok? She calls a kid she admits she doesn't know a faggot. I'm pretty sure that is a 'gay hate slur'.

on Nov 17, 2010 at 11:08 AM

oH btw, Is there proof that these screenshots are really Willow's???

on Nov 17, 2010 at 11:16 AM

Jill, please point out where in the the biased hatefilled story, where it says that she didnt know the "fellow student of Wasilla"??? If other kids said this on Facebook, it wouldnt make a peep, but because you guys hate Sarah Palin, you are looking for anything and everything to trash her family and her. But that is typical from the OP and the media and liberals. Scream "dont pick on my kids", but the Palin kids and the Bush twins were fair game.

on Nov 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM

"Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting ... My sister had a kid and is still hot." She follows it up by referring to Tre as a "faggot."