I too would have cried
Martha-Ann, believe me, I too would have cried.
I would have not had the poise or the streght to have walked out of that room. I would have wailed. I would have rend my blouse and gnashed my teeth at the thought, at even at the hint of my husband being called a bigot.
Senator Graham was out of line.
We know you have black friends that appreciate you. We know that even though the National Association of Women Lawyers consider Alito unfit for the Supreme Court, their president, Cathy Fleming wrote nice things about him.
What troubles me most is that people are picking on your husband for technicalities; because we know that Samuel's crushing hand of fate is all about technicalities.
It's not Alito's fault women get married to a shmuck. Sam works in the world of legal realism. The law is the law and a woman who gets married loses her right to make decisions about her body.
It's not Alito's fault that a mentally handicap victim of rape got an bad deal with his lawyer. His lawyer had not adequately provided citations in his brief to places in the record describing the harassment. The rules are the rules and it was a technicality they had to live with.
Statistics are statistics and unless you can conclusively prove that a black guy was not given due process with an all white jury, it's a technicality black people are going to have to live with. It's just not Alito's fault.
Technicalities are technicalities and in the real world of legal decisions, the law is the law and life just happens. They have to be looked separately, inarticulately, completely separate from each other. This is the real world of good judicial philosophy.
More importantly Martha, you and I stand by our men. We do anything and everything we need to do to help our husbands win. If they win, we win. I would have cried rivers of tears, on cue and for the record. I would have smeared my mascara and blown my nose loudly. Maybe, even maybe, halted a little sob. I would have done anything my husband's acting coaches directed me to do; because I too like to win.
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The myth of the little woman
Submitted by liza on 12 January 2006 - 11:06am.
I so fucking hate it when people portray the wife as a little woman who carries around her husband's feelings in a purse.
Women can be more power-hungry and ruthless about then men and will go to any leghts to get what they want. I mean, please, it's the stuff classic literature is made of. Lady Macbeth comes to mind.
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great post
Submitted by elana (not verified) on 12 January 2006 - 4:20pm.
This whole scene is giving me a rash and your analysis is dead on.
Now that it looks like Alito may very well get confirmed, I'm gonna start crying.
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Nice
I would've cried too, just having the public know I was married to such a misogynist for all those years. Seriously, the fact that Repubs are trying to make hay out of a woman's tears after spending a decade calling Hillary and Chelsea anything but human just speaks to their mendacity and hypocrisy.
There's plenty for a woman to cry over. Much of it created by her husband and his political cronies.