As has been widely reported, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked at her confirmation hearing if she \u201ccould provide a definition for the word \u2019woman.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I can\u2019t,\u201d she eventually said. \u201cNot in this context. I\u2019m not a biologist.\u201d<\/p>\n
What to make of this?<\/p>\n
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The first thing to make of it is that the answer is false. Judge Jackson of course knows full well what a woman is (namely, a person with xx chromosomes; males have xy).\u00a0 The idea that a functioning adult, much less a Supreme Court candidate, doesn’t know what a woman is is preposterous.\u00a0 So why the claim of ignorance?<\/p>\n
Here’s my theory.\u00a0 Judge Jackson denies knowing because,\u00a0 for good reason, she suspects that the next question is going to be about biological males competing (and predictably dominating) women’s sports. Like so many woke-adjacent liberals, she has no problem with this domination\u00a0 —\u00a0 or at least no problem she can admit out loud\u00a0 — because having no problem is what Woke Wisdom demands. She can’t cross Woke Wisdom because it’s ingrained in her base political support. Ergo, it’s actually better for her to make the absurd claim that she doesn’t know what a woman is.<\/p>\n
Only in a very, very unserious country does this count as a qualification for the Supreme Court.\u00a0 But what were we expecting?\u00a0 It’s no less unserious than the idea that a male who has gone through adolescence with surging testosterone, and has developed the non-reversible heart and lung capacity that comes with it, not to mention the muscle mass, should be able, out of some very weird notion of compassion, to compete with females who will never have those advantages.<\/p>\n
Fare thee well, women’s sports.\u00a0 We hardly knew ye.\u00a0 And fare thee well any notion that Supreme Court confirmation hearings are headed anywhere other than becoming a Twilight Zone version of street theater.<\/p>\n
P.S. The person who nominated Judge Jackson has absolutely no problem knowing who a woman is, as he repeatedly and in unqualified language promised to nominate one (as opposed to a man) for Justice Breyer’s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As has been widely reported, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked at her confirmation hearing if she \u201ccould provide a definition for the word \u2019woman.’\u201d \u201cNo, I can\u2019t,\u201d she eventually said. \u201cNot in this context. I\u2019m not a biologist.\u201d What to make of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judicial-selection","category-u-s-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\n