Barrett is a cold fish.

[madaboutharry]

I have known people like this my entire life. They have erected a wall around them, have a demeanor that keeps people at a distance, and have no warmth emanating from them.

This of course has nothing to do with competency, but I think this is making her refusal to answer question all the more annoying.

[Beringia]

1. She seems to be more human than a lot of men would be

[Cartaphelius]

3. You mean republican men I presume...

[Beringia]

4. I think women are judged on this where men aren't even noticed in this way

I am just talking about interactions in life, nothing to do with their politics. That said, I think women can be more "catty" and insincere, to pretend to be nice.

[madaboutharry]

7. My comments have nothing to do with her being a woman.

If a man were behaving like this, I would have also called him a cold fish.

In fact, I have known men who are cold fish.

The status of a cold fish is gender neutral.

[Cartaphelius]

8. Yet, the republicans are using

her gender to legitimize their push for her appointment.

While the dem's are displaying her indifference to the suffering
of the nation at large.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Justice without empathy is not justice. . . . nt

[Cartaphelius]

9. Clearly you are Canadian.

Such trivial concerns are of no consequence in America.

[kimbutgar]

5. I bet her children live in fear of her wrath

Ans she is a spare the rod spoil the child type of parent.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. She's part of the paternalistic pecking order.

Of course she misplaces her anger on her kids. She belongs to this handmaiden-submissive private religious "People of Praise" Catholic group that diminishes and disempowers women and shuns them if they object. Barrett's husband had to accompany her to an OB-GYN medical appointment to make sure that she didn't ask for BIRTH CONTROL prescriptions. And Barrett's husband was supported by People of Praise and their requirement that women submit to their husbands' commands.

When I watch Barrett, I see her pious, holier-than-thou perspective as consistent with conservative Irish Catholics in my extended family. Barrett is part of the Notre Dame culture of the belief that Catholics, and especially Irish Catholics, are God's chosen people, which means that any of their failings or falls from grace, are easily forgiven because God views them with enormous favor. So they come off as elitist snobs who are better, both religiously, and RACIALLY, than anyone else. That's the Notre Dame culture. That's the draw to Touchdown Jesus.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. If she ever does see them! I bet others fill the mother role. Hopefully, not the older daughters.

[calguy]

10. She's probably uncomfortable

without her husband there to tell her how to think and what to say.

[Cerridwen]

11. she is what the men in her cult and life made of her

she is a product of her father, her husband, scalia, and her cult.

[SlogginThroughIt]

12. This is dumb.

Sorry but this is more of the same crap that we saw with Hillary being attacked for being cold, unlikable, etc.

It doesn’t matter and it furthers the crap that women have to deal with in their professions.

There are plenty of things to rip her for.

[madaboutharry]

13. Not dumb.

[SlogginThroughIt]

17. Very thoughtful.

It is dumb for the reasons I mentioned.

There is no need to attack her for attributes that have nothing to do with the position.

[Disaffected]

15. Dumb, petty and pointless.

Along with all the eye and facial appearance commentary we often see here.

[EndlessWire]

19. In general I agree with your comment

but, as noted up thread, didn't she say something like she would only apply the letter, and not the spirit, of the law? I want my law served up with justice, compassion, and perhaps some juror pity on occasion.

I think people need to push past their childhoods and do their very best on their own, keeping in mind that what they have gone through impacts them greatly. But, you can't be exonerated for some high crime just because you got punched by life. So, there's that.

But, there has to be a reasonable application of justice and what evens things out, without expectations of miracles that will change the perp. I want someone to apply the law at the highest level.

I don't think this judge has enough experience, and that she has been picked because of her gender and politics. I suppose that is how they all get picked, though.

[JCMach1]

14. Shite stinks at all temperatures

[UTUSN]

18. She's a Stepford wife!1

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. She's the prim and proper type who'd probably pass out if someone used a four-letter word.

Also the one who always misses the humor in a joke.