Comments on: Speechless. http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:22:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Unpossible http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-8180 Unpossible Tue, 12 May 2009 01:37:30 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-8180 Okay, I have been resisting waving this around on the interwebs, because it’s vaguely braggy and obnoxious, but I know Sonia Sotomayor. She’s a pretty close family friend. She is in no way fat. Not that it should be newsworthy if she were. But she’s not. So, yeah, even more ridiculous.

]]> By: Josh http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7693 Josh Wed, 06 May 2009 15:48:25 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7693 When my now-retired M-I-L was on a state trial and then appellate bench from the 70′s to the ’90′s–she lost out on that federal seat when Carter lost in 1980 (and for other political reasons not relevant here)–her nickname among male practitioners was “Queen Ann.” I don’t think any of the men were called “King [anything.]” Thank god she wasn’t fat.

]]> By: Spark http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7630 Spark Tue, 05 May 2009 20:14:44 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7630 I’m excited by the Sotomayor “temperament” stories, which I interpret as people calling her a bitch (and all that means, I’m sure, is that she’s tougher than a doormat, sexism yada yada). I can’t help but think, Yes! A bitch! I love bitches. Give ‘em hell, Sonia!

]]> By: jdregent http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7611 jdregent Tue, 05 May 2009 18:41:32 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7611 And Kivrin, I was far more offended by that hit job in the New Republic than by the fat shame comments here. I like Rebecca Traister’s take down. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/04/rebecca_sonya/index.html

]]> By: jdregent http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7610 jdregent Tue, 05 May 2009 18:36:51 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7610 baraquiel, i’d like a shorter shelf life for the whole federal bench. i’m so sick of each and every one of them.

]]> By: Kivrin http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7608 Kivrin Tue, 05 May 2009 18:13:23 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7608 BTW, Glenn Greenwald over at Salon wrote a great post about this today.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/05/tnr/

]]> By: bluebears http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7607 bluebears Tue, 05 May 2009 17:58:58 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7607 I am also unwilling to let myself get worked up about comments on a law gossip blog. call me ridiculously judgmental but any attorney who reads blogs related to “legal gossip” is a fucking horses ass just on principal. :) But I do see you’re overall outrage on this point PS.

]]> By: DangerMouse http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7602 DangerMouse Tue, 05 May 2009 17:32:26 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7602 Wanna rage some more? She’s *clearly* dumb:
http://wonkette.com/408318/is-frontrunner-mexican-lady-judge-a-dumb-anonymous-sources-think-so
That article is about this gem:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085

]]> By: jdregent http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7586 jdregent Tue, 05 May 2009 16:43:49 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7586 About the suit thing — not that it is surprising; talk to any female lawyer over the age of 40 and you get these horror stories, but do male lawyers really not wear brown suits? I had no idea.

]]> By: Kivrin http://www.harpyness.com/2009/05/05/speechless/comment-page-1/#comment-7585 Kivrin Tue, 05 May 2009 16:38:59 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=6013#comment-7585 *Sotomayor, sorry

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