You talk about Sotomayor hiding who she is…well, that’s a load of BS. What about obama? He has hidden who he is throughout his entire political career and he has never been attacked for it — not the way the women are!

Why aren’t you just as concerned at obama’s lack of disclosure when it comes to his grades during his college years (since he is considered so brilliant, why would he not disclose his brilliant GPA?); his state senate records have been destroyed (why?); and what about his obstructive actions in producing a certified birth certificate to show he is an American citizen? Form copies of birth certificates don’t count…besides, a President must be a native born American in order to be President. Don’t you think we should hold a person vying for the most powerful position in the world to the same standard we hold a woman who is about to be a Supreme Court Justice and who will have far less power than a President?

Again, the double standard continues to be applied to any and every woman who dares think she is equal to or better than any man, no matter how medicore his record may be compared to her more extraordinary one — the question is why? Fear that with this long overdue access to power women will use it to treat men the same way they’ve treated women for centuries? What will it take for men to stop considering women the “enemy” and judge them through the same lens they judge each other? Is fairness only to be applied to men?

It just doesn’t stop…during the “error” of obama alone, we have seen the vilification of some extraordinary women who have met higher standards in order to be considered on equal footing with men — Hillary, then Palin and now Sotomayor and they still get attacked on a daily basis.

It’s this way of thinking which is literally destroying the planet. Thank you, patriarchy, for nothing.

If the Dems gave Alito special treatment because he’s white and a male it is clearly the Dems that you think are the racists and sexists.

I could also disagree on the definition of prejudice. Several thousands of years of history has shown who have enslaved women and which group has had to defer to whom. These are facts and not indicative of hate my part or a desire of my gender to become the enslavers.

Your last paragraph is one we can completely agree on without question. So why the emphasis on the gender and ethnicity of Sotomajor instead of focusing on her rulings, education, character and experience?

BTW diversity does live in the mind and since we are all more or less born with an equal ability to reason, we must conclude the rules of our society and our environment create the little neurons firing in the cerebrum exciting the memories which determine our behavior and reaction to daily events in our lives.

The more the brain is used to explore ideas the better we can use logic to make our decisions. Lazy people lose the cells they are born with when they refuse to exercise their brains and react on an emotional level or let others think for them.

raza
femine race (also biology); breed, stock, strain; “raza humana” human race, mankind; “de raza caballo” thoroughbred.