Unit D Blog #22

Judge Sonia Sotomayor has come into the Supreme Court with many gender expectations and stereotypes after being the first Latina woman ever selected to the honor. Conservative critics from all facets of news organizations have spent most of their time making false and unproven claims about Sotomayor being a "racist." Pat Buchanon, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and many other notoriously conservative and Republican have been seen publicly bashing Sotomayor with ignorant stereotypes and assumptions. All of these men have questioned whether Sotomayor could perform her job, and by them discussing this on nationally syndicated television, they are obviously trying to get the public to look negatively upon Sotomayor, and even perhaps to associate her name with a negative connotation. On media outlets everywhere there have been comments by right wing males about her being a female. A few of these men made comments such as they doubted whether she could be a true leader because of her gender, and one male guest on a news program even said, "I just hope she won't be making decisions when she is menstruating." Comments such as these tasteless examples affect not only Sotomayor and her supporters, but also young girls all over the United States and world that aspire to be a Supreme Court judge. These men have been socialized by their parents and various other factors to believe that the only person who can handle a position of power correctly is a white male, which is the type of mentality that is brazen with stupidity. If these media outlets continue to negatively approach and chastise the decision to put Sotomayor into a position on the Supreme Court then they continue to make the general public believe that the white male is incapable of condoning anyone into power but themselves, which has been the story of our country since its origin in the 1700's.