Althouse: Is this anti-woman?

August 19, 2005

Is this anti-woman?

Or anti-lawyer?

11 comments:

goesh said...: - probably a little of each since the ABA just gave him a big thumbs up -; 8/19/05, 6:22 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Actually, I am happier with Thomas than I would have been with Bork. Nothing against Bork, but I just like Thomas - probably my favorite Justice.

But isn't Roberts' wife an attorney? Fairly successful at that?; 8/19/05, 8:07 AM
Wasteland Fan said...: Saul said: "Second, the comment should be read as gender-neutral . . ."

Wasteland Fan says: Right, because otherwise you'd have to ignore the legions of men who were homemakers when Roberts wrote the statement.; 8/19/05, 8:37 AM
Anonymous said...: It's absolutely anti-lawyer, and I'm sure he had a smile on his face when he wrote it.; 8/19/05, 8:50 AM
Nancy said...: Well, you have to go to the bottom of the article to get the full quote: "Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good, but I suppose that is for the judges to decide."

Can he be faulted for trying to anticipate what detractors of the scholarship program might say? As a lawyer, isn't that part of his job?; 8/19/05, 10:52 AM
Troy said...: Wasteland Fan: men as homemakers... I have two words for you: "Michael Keaton". :)

Bruce Hayden -- I love Thomas. I have introduced my Con law students to the joys of the Thomas dissent.

Overall I think the Roberts homemaker comment is a tempest in a teapot. The world would be a lot better place with more homemakers and less lawyers (of either sex).; 8/19/05, 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Well put, Prof. Althouse! Heh heh.; 8/19/05, 11:43 AM
Unknown said...: I agree with Roaring Tiger. 20 years ago I thought women's suffrage was a necessary and good thing.

Then Rosie O'Donnell and the Couple-Thousand-Mom March happened.

Now I am seriously troubled by the 19th Amendment.; 8/19/05, 12:08 PM
hat said...: I think it was less a matter of saying women were unqualified, but that women who were homemakers were unqualified. Much like, however you may support affirmative action, putting a former black railway worker or forklift driver into a proffesorship would be alot like encouraging wives who had only been homemakers to take up law.; 8/19/05, 12:30 PM
Troy said...: Drethelin... too bad there aren't more former railroaders and forklift drivers in academia. It would've been nice to have professors who had held "real" jobs -- meaning manual labor. I know I know... I'm not generalizing to "all" professors.

I did have the benefit of many of my law professors who had actually practiced law before state judges with needy clients and bills to collect, etc.; 8/19/05, 12:55 PM
Dwight said...: It's a lawyer joke.

Thanks for the link though. The comments there are priceless, especially the ones that clearly didn't read the posted link. If I didn't know better I'd say it was a spoof. Sadly it isn't.; 8/19/05, 2:15 PM