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It is. As a woman, I don't really care that she has 9 kids. I do care that she seems very Dark Ages-esque, however
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She has 7, but I agree with you that it does not matter, not to mention that she adopted children from Haiti. And I agree with you that there are other grounds to oppose her. For me the biggest is denying a seat to Garland based on a rule they made up that they won’t apply here
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It isn't at all clear to me that Scalia and Barrett differ in their self-definitions as parents
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It's not about them, it's about how politicians talk about them. Big GOP theme is that Barrett is a great mom (which I'm sure is true but not her qualification for bench). Never heard that about Scalia.
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The repeated mentions of her family aren't really about her parenting, they're a coded message to the right wing Christian tradwife people that she's one of them. It's subtext, not text.
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It is to some extent but also women are regularly asked about children & childcare when interviewing for a job; their identity as mother is routinely brought up, whereas it is rarely or never brought up or questioned for men. That’s the point of the OT, no one did it for Scalia
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This is all dog whistling to QuiverFull psychos. Someone should explain who they are and why she is their KWEEN. If I only followed a journalist I’d recommend they write a piece.
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As I recall, his management of nine children was referred to (jokingly) as a qualification for dealing with his fellow justices.
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What’s really wild is the folks who hold the conservative beliefs that support Barrett’s nomination are often the same folks who insist women, esp ones with so many children, should be home raising them. Amazing the kind of acrobatic suspense of conviction humans are capable of
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And how so many of the women on that side of the issue are eager to destroy the liberal policies they were happy to ride to highly paid, high-visibility positions they achieve.

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