I agree with this piece - by saying they are voting in a block because the three are women, then somehow this gets translated into a diminished opinion. This was written in response to a recent NYTimes piece. What do Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan have in common? As Adam Liptak explains in The New York Times this week, it’s definitely not that they are all women! “Three Justices Bound by Beliefs, Not Just Gender,” the story is titled. “The justices are notable for how often they agree with each other,” reads the caption beneath a snapshot of the trio. “The alignments are a product of ideology, not biology,” Liptak writes. Liptak is correct: Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg agree with each other in over 93 percent of their decisions, and their agreement cannot be explained by synced menstrual cycles. But do we really have to write that insight down and publish it in a newspaper? The more Liptak works to debunk the idea that these women agree just because they’re women, the further he reinforces the gender stereotype.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:54:10 +0000
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