blog 22

I was so excited to see that Obama had nominated Sotomayor for the Supreme Court of the United States. Not just because she is a woman, not because she was of Puerto Rican decent, and not because she was a catholic more because I like seeing all hell break loose when the majority of the United States is over taken by votes and support. It’s great to see not one (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) but two women involved in high ranking politics, it means our voice have more of a chance to be heard and the issues like abortion, equal pay, and education for low income neighborhoods won’t be left up to super conservative Scalia.
Although it is great to see a woman on board, I am not her biggest fan. I did not agree with her on many of her rulings and thought the her Wise Latina remark was way off base but she is qualified to be a member of the supreme court. The media acts any politician whether it is conservative to a fault George W Bush or Liberal Joe Biden. You cannot please everyone, but women are viewed as especially threatening in politics to the majority of America (men and women). Hillary Clinton wasn’t called Senator Clinton even though she served for about 8 years that’s about 4 years more then President Obama served yet he commanded more respect as a politician. Yes President Obama is a minority but he is also a man, he isn’t as much of anomaly as a woman is in politics. Women in politics is almost bizarre and doesn’t happen frequently because they are still viewed as subservient and lower class then men in most cases. Sotomayor is no exception if she had been a he I doubt that Sotomayor would have been attacked so thoroughly in the media. Her gender played a bigger part in the situation then her race or religion, many did not believe a woman could hold her own in the supreme court and I truly think a large reason of this is because there haven’t been enough women in politics. With every woman that becomes involved with politics and makes a career for herself it will become a little easier for the next.