Well, that took a little longer than I thought but this morning in the NYT piece about Sotomayor's "judicial temperment, there it was: "strident." I also expect more spicy, fiery, emotional and the like. Just so we all know that even Yale educated federal judges are still crazy emotional foreign bitches. I don't know if I have the stomach to keep track of all the othering that's going on with this.
h Posted by binky at May 29, 2009 08:23 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Gender and Politics"sharp tongue" I forgot that one. Harpy! Shrew! *sigh*
update: I see Balloon Juice caught this thread too...
Posted by: Binky at May 29, 2009 08:52 AM | PERMALINKIt's hard to read and watch - but it's also sort of fascinating to read these people so predictably behave in such a biased way, with apparently no recognition of what they are doing.
Posted by: Armand at May 29, 2009 11:26 AM | PERMALINKWell, y'know, these Maria chicks are all the same.
Posted by: jacflash at May 29, 2009 12:54 PM | PERMALINKGlenn Greenwald has a nice takedown of this argument, showing - with evidence - cases in which she is the inverse.
Posted by: binky at May 29, 2009 04:05 PM | PERMALINK