Another Question for Sotomayor
Apropos of this quote:
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological [my bold] or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
I would really like to have tea with her and Larry Summers, and just see where the conversation goes.
Well ima grrrrl, and a mathematician, and I totally dig Larry Summers.
There is a biological basis for all behavior.
Male and female brains are different in morphology and in function, as fMRI has demonstrated.
So what?
— matoko_chan · May 27, 10:36 PM · #
Actually, I just wanted to see what she does when Larry spills tea all over his shirt.
Which is the kind of thing he’s been known to do.
— Noah Millman · May 27, 10:51 PM · #
I assume the conversation would go to Battlestar Galactica, as all conversations must.
— sidereal · May 27, 10:55 PM · #
Or cheese in his nose.
I have a degree of aspergers as well, which is prolly why so many find me …….abrasive.
;)
— matoko_chan · May 28, 01:31 AM · #
i think this post is relevant:
http://tinyurl.com/phd6z5
i didn’t mention the supreme court stuff cuz i didn’t want to the comments to turn into boring farting about politics ;-) but i’ve heard many a time over the past month about how women are ‘just different’ from men and how that has obvious innate roots (on NPR). what sometimes goes by the term ‘difference feminism’ seems to be a default setting that pops up whether people want it to or not, and it’s never something that’s objected to from what i have seen when it reflects positively on women (their emotions giving them a more richly textured and synoptic view of particular cases as opposed to a being robotic ratiocination as men presumably are).
— razib · May 28, 07:13 AM · #