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Manu Raju @mkraju 10:02 PM · Mar 22, 2022Can you provide a definition for the word, woman? Blackburn asks.
Jackson: Can I provide a definition? No, I cant.
Blackburn: You cant?
Jackson: Not in this context - Im not a biologist. In my work as a judge what I do is I address disputes.
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hatrack
(59,439 posts)And BTW, did a wart hog bed down in her hair the night before the hearing? Just wondering.
brush
(53,469 posts)trying to lay traps but getting shown up.
Botany
(70,291 posts)From Wiki:
After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University. She performed improv comedy and took classes in drama,[13] and led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window. Jackson graduated in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude, having written a senior thesis entitled "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants".
Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993, then attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.
Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to Mary Jo (Morgan) and Hilman Wedgeworth, who worked in sales and management. She was a beauty pageant winner in high school.
Blackburn attended Mississippi State University on a 4-H scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics (fashion)
in 1974. She was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.
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ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)She was the one who hung out withe the 7 dwarfs. 🤗
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old as dirt
(1,972 posts)...when somebody demands that I "define" a non-mathematical concept.
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FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)has to deal with cases surrounding womens rights (such as abortion), how does she deal with it if she cannot define what a woman is?
Didnt she answer a question about abortion with its a womans right to choose.?
We women, no matter who we are, are often discriminated on the basis of sex (RBGs own words).
Cassidy
(200 posts)I would have a more complete response to your comment, but since you haven't defined all the words you are using in your sentences, I cannot be sure of your meaning.
I am, however, interested in how Justice Kavanaugh defines sexual assault and rape.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)Since a woman is defined as being an adult human female (which should have been Browns answer in the first place).
Funny how it is that the Republicans know exactly what a woman is when they make laws oppressing us.
LuckyCharms
(17,287 posts)If a person was born with a man's genitals, but identifies as a woman, and/or has physically transitioned to a woman...is that person a woman?
And then she would have answered yes.
And then GOP heads would start exploding, and a debate would have ensued over a subject that has nothing to do with the hearings, once again causing a huge Repub distraction.
I think she was very wise with her answer.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)However, in this state of discussion, especially since sport has heavily featured in the last few weeks with womens NCAA swimming Im wondering if it was a wise move.
Btw I dont like Blackburn but, speaking as a member of several womens rights groups including Save Womens Sport, was it an appropriate answer considering the issue?
I dont know (as a very progressive Dem) but to an undecided voter? Probably not.
LuckyCharms
(17,287 posts)I am a very progressive Democrat as well. How an undecided voter would view the answer...I am not sure to be honest.
I viewed her answer as "consistent" with the way she answered several other questions.
A lot of her answers carried the same theme..."I'm a judge. I decide cases based on the evidence and arguments put before me for each specific case. That is what a judge does".
spooky3
(34,302 posts)Should be offered in the arguments of the parties or in the statutes or regulations relevant to a specific case currently before the justices. This is simply a gotcha question that does not help anyone determine whether a candidate is qualified.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)How can one begin to even discuss womens rights when you cannot define what a woman is?
She will most likely deal with cases that affect womens rights, such as Roe v. Wade.
Pro-choice, equal pay, female representation, womens prisons, womens sport, womens refuges. How can one discuss any of these groups when one cannot define what a woman is?
spooky3
(34,302 posts)Ask this during a confirmation hearing. They analyze the arguments including the definitions put forward by the parties and expert witnesses.Statutes typically provide definitions or delegate authority to enforcement agencies to do so. For example, year of service is broadly defined in the internal revenue code (by Congress), with discretion given to the IRS to spell out details, e.g., how many hours of work must be performed and on what schedule for it to be a year that an employer must credit in a.401k plan.
As Judge Brown said, she is not a biological scientist, who might provide expert testimony as to how woman would be defined.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)This question is like "How high is up?"
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)After all she knows exactly who to target when she votes against abortion rights: women. Without reading too much about her, Im sure she targeted Planned Parenthood, a service most women used.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)men get abortions too.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)Sex is it that can get pregnant and choose to have abortions?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)doesn't matter, in the end, how they're defined -- legally, socially, biologically or otherwise. I meet someone who wants an abortion, I help them get one, they get one, the end.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)Only women, however they identify, have uteruses.
When you start diminishing women via language, you diminish their rights.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)Some men assigned male at birth are actually born with a uterus. Acknowledging that does nothing to diminish women's rights.
When you narrow the understanding of women, the more women are hurt and their rights are diminished.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)Only occur in males.
They will be infertile. They will not be able to have children.
One thing with people with DSDs, though, they will tell you not to drag them into the debate.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)cabot
(724 posts)Only biological women have uteri though some may have had it removed. When you expand what woman is, you dilute its meaning. Abortion no longer becomes a womans issue because everyone can get pregnant. Gender ideology should be respected, but it doesnt trump biology. Biology is real, like the earth is flat or climate change is real.
Girls in Africa/ME cannot identify out of FGM. Women who are kidnapped and trafficked cant identify out of being used and abused. Women are discriminated, to quote RGB, on the basis of our sex.