How many times did one of the men on the bench interrupt her so far…
But seriously, they always say the questions will often show how the members are thinking and the direction they may go… One possible example…
While Justice Sotomayor was wiping the floor with Stewart for ignoring the fact that childbirth is 14 times riskier to pregnant people’s lives than abortion, Justice Samuel Alito decided to butt in with an eye-opening question: “Are there secular philosophers and bioethicists who take the position that the rights of personhood begin at conception, or at some point other than viability?” Alito is hinting at the end game here, which is personhood under the 14th amendment, which would outlaw all abortions, imperil fertility treatments like IVF, possibly outlaw certain forms of birth control, and criminalize pregnancy outcomes like miscarriage and stillbirth.
That one always gets me. Once the show was off the air for like five years, the MRAs decided that Pam was the worst character ever in the history of television… aaaand somehow Jim was not
Hint: main character name is in the title. If you don’t like the title character, you probably won’t like the show.
That’s young tumblrs for you. Every time they’re like “can you believe people actually lived like this” I’m like, yeah, I did, and later than you think.
To be fair, this was also true of men. Every guy in the office had to wear a button down shirt, tie, no jeans, and no sneakers, and a blazer probably, even if they weren’t in a customer facing position. Tired of the thermostat set in the mid 60s? Blame this.
Fortunately, by the 2000s, I only had to dress up if I was dealing with customers, and by the 2010s even this had tapered off a bit. But maybe it’s because I’m no longer in front of customers as much.
In the 2020s I can show up naked for all they care, it’s all remote work anyway. If you’re lucky enough to have work.
I remember Whoopi Goldberg calling out folks like this on their hypocrisy years ago. She suggested putting all the names of pro-birth activists on a list, and matching them up with all the children waiting for foster homes or adoption. Of course, far fewer people would publicly admit to being members of that group if they had to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
Yeah, like if you started watching Jessica Jones, watched for 10 minutes and went, “Ugh, i don’t like this person,” then you turn the show off and don’t think about it again… right?
I don’t know about “hypocrites.” They seem to both talk the talk and walk the walk of wanting to see other people suffer.
