Blog 28

"She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue." Second circuit judge
It is about darn time a women had an inflated opinion of herself, because no one in politics will. Even though this is a ‘negative’, good for Judge Sotomayor. I find this terribly amusing since most men even ones with no career have a high opinion of oneself. Is it wrong to be confident, to be domineering? I don’t think so and these traits would be a positive for a man and even sought after they wouldn’t come as a judgment. This is also interesting since Antonin Scalia, is dominating downright aggressive when defending his thoughts and opinions (especially textualism) yeah he might get flack for being a huge conservative but no one would call him on his domineering attitude.
“A persistent and ubiquitous gender stereotype portrays smart and aggressive women as domineering, mean, nasty bitches. This stereotype explains much of the negative treatment that Hillary Clinton received during her presidential campaign.”
This stereotype happens every where every day in every profession and it is annoying! Hillary is no more aggressive then McCain was and the way several media outlets portrayed the female candidates made me feel ill. I find the opinions of several male commentators unbelievable sexist and out of line. I don’t think Sotomayor helped herself with the ‘wise Latina’ comments but I don’t think she deserved to ripped apart on David Letterman either, can we portray a white male politician as a domineering, possibly adulterous, and loud mouthed instead of just focusing on minority politicians? At least even things out a little bit. It is easy to go after politicians since they are in the forfront of the media but it seems like I heard more about how much of a ball buster Hillary Clinton was or the Wise Latina crack or even what the first lady was wearing more then I heard about several different sex scandals or Edwards cheating on his cancer striken wife. If we are going to poke fun at todays politicians at least give a hard time to those who really deserve it and I would think it was easy to make fun of a closeted conservative southern white man then it would be to make fun of a well educated aggressive women who graduated from Princeton.