That sort of thing [being a "nice" girl] might have mattered more to women of Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg’s generation, but what about the younger Judge Sotomayor, who was more likely to face challenges related to ethnicity? What was in it for her?
A charge “rightly leveled” against the early books, Ms. Rehak says, “is that they were racist — all the villains were ‘foreign’ or ‘swarthy,’ and all the African-Americans were portrayed as second class in terms of intelligence, profession, etc.” She said that “one of the things I find so interesting about Sotomayor’s citing of Nancy is that even she, as a Puerto Rican child, just looked past all of that and took away with her the essence of Nancy.”
Dear Ladies,
Just in case you didn't get the memo, melanin "more [than] likely" trumps vag. That whole women's lib movement took care of all that gender discrimination, k?
[I read it that way because the words "generation" and "younger" lead me to believe that the comparison isn't about racial/ethnic background, but rather age.]
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