~ Kathleen Parker on Sotomayor confirmation hearings

Kathleen Parker rarely has anything nice to say about feminists -- or liberals or Democrats for that matter. She admits in her July 20 column "I'm partial to men" which is an understatement! So I expected her to side with the Republican men questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her confirmation hearing. Not so; even male-defending, Republican-leaning Kathleen Parker took offense. Here are just a few lines; you really should read the full article though.

Followers of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings were witness to a now-familiar phenomenon. Women are treated differently than men in such settings.

To wit: Questions posed to Sotomayor about her temperament -- is she a bully? -- probably wouldn't be posed to a similarly qualified man.

And

More troubling were questions based on anonymous hearsay aimed at Sotomayor's bench personality. Here's what women hear when men ask a female candidate about her temperament: "Are you really the bitch everybody says you are?"

Men can be temperamental and still be great; women are merely impossible to deal with. Why is that?

Spot on, girl.