"I'm not a biologist"

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Manu Raju @mkraju 10:02 PM · Mar 22, 2022
“Can you provide a definition for the word, woman?” Blackburn asks.

Jackson: “Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t.”

Blackburn: “You can’t?”

Jackson: “Not in this context - I’m not a biologist. … In my work as a judge what I do is I address disputes.”

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[hatrack]

12. Sen. Blonde Palin says what?

And BTW, did a wart hog bed down in her hair the night before the hearing? Just wondering.

[brush]

2. So many repubicans, so little time, so many dumbos..s.

trying to lay traps but getting shown up.

[Botany]

3. Not even a fair fight Judge Brown Jackson vs Sen. Blackburn

From Wiki:

After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University. She performed improv comedy and took classes in drama,[13] and led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window. Jackson graduated in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude, having written a senior thesis entitled "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants".

Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993, then attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.

Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to Mary Jo (Morgan) and Hilman Wedgeworth, who worked in sales and management. She was a beauty pageant winner in high school.

Blackburn attended Mississippi State University on a 4-H scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics (fashion)
in 1974. She was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.

[ShazzieB]

28. Snow White.

She was the one who hung out withe the 7 dwarfs. 🤗

[old as dirt]

5. I get annoyed as hell...

...when somebody demands that I "define" a non-mathematical concept.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

7. Imagine that SC Judge Brown

has to deal with cases surrounding women’s rights (such as abortion), how does she deal with it if she cannot define what a “woman” is?

Didn’t she answer a question about abortion with “it’s a woman’s right to choose.”?

We women, no matter who we are, are often discriminated on the “basis of sex” (RBG’s own words).

[Cassidy]

8. hahahaha thanks for the laugh!

I would have a more complete response to your comment, but since you haven't defined all the words you are using in your sentences, I cannot be sure of your meaning.

I am, however, interested in how Justice Kavanaugh defines sexual assault and rape.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

9. It's not really funny

Since a woman is defined as being an adult human female (which should have been Brown’s answer in the first place).

Funny how it is that the Republicans know exactly what a woman is when they make laws oppressing us.

[LuckyCharms]

13. Well, if she had answered as you stated, the next question would have been...

If a person was born with a man's genitals, but identifies as a woman, and/or has physically transitioned to a woman...is that person a woman?

And then she would have answered yes.

And then GOP heads would start exploding, and a debate would have ensued over a subject that has nothing to do with the hearings, once again causing a huge Repub distraction.

I think she was very wise with her answer.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

23. I agree, it was a diplomatic answer

However, in this state of discussion, especially since sport has heavily featured in the last few weeks with women’s NCAA swimming I’m wondering if it was a wise move.

Btw I don’t like Blackburn but, speaking as a member of several women’s rights groups including Save Women’s Sport, was it an appropriate answer considering the issue?

I don’t know (as a very progressive Dem) but to an undecided voter? Probably not.

[LuckyCharms]

32. I understand where you are coming from.

I am a very progressive Democrat as well. How an undecided voter would view the answer...I am not sure to be honest.

I viewed her answer as "consistent" with the way she answered several other questions.

A lot of her answers carried the same theme..."I'm a judge. I decide cases based on the evidence and arguments put before me for each specific case. That is what a judge does".

[spooky3]

10. But it's not the job of a justice to define terms. Definitions

Should be offered in the arguments of the parties or in the statutes or regulations relevant to a specific case currently before the justices. This is simply a gotcha question that does not help anyone determine whether a candidate is qualified.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

11. It's not a gotcha

How can one begin to even discuss women’s rights when you cannot define what a woman is?

She will most likely deal with cases that affect women’s rights, such as Roe v. Wade.

Pro-choice, equal pay, female representation, women’s prisons, women’s sport, women’s refuges. How can one discuss any of these groups when one cannot define what a woman is?

[spooky3]

15. As I said before, justices do not write definitions, and it is ridiculous to

Ask this during a confirmation hearing. They analyze the arguments including the definitions put forward by the parties and expert witnesses.Statutes typically provide definitions or delegate authority to enforcement agencies to do so. For example, “year of service” is broadly defined in the internal revenue code (by Congress), with discretion given to the IRS to spell out details, e.g., how many hours of work must be performed and on what schedule for it to be a year that an employer must credit in a.401k plan.

As Judge Brown said, she is not a biological scientist, who might provide expert testimony as to how “woman” would be defined.

[Samrob]

20. Can Marsha define a woman? And would her definition be correct? By what standards...chromosomes?

This question is like "How high is up?"

[FunkyLeprechaun]

24. She might be able to define woman

After all she knows exactly who to target when she votes against abortion rights: women. Without reading too much about her, I’m sure she targeted Planned Parenthood, a service most women used.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. A case about abortion is decided on abortion, not on the definition of "woman." Besides,

men get abortions too.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

16. Which

Sex is it that can get pregnant and choose to have abortions?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Having helped all sorts of pregnant people access the abortion care they want, I know it truly

doesn't matter, in the end, how they're defined -- legally, socially, biologically or otherwise. I meet someone who wants an abortion, I help them get one, they get one, the end.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

18. Which people get pregnant?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. People with uteri.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

21. You mean women?

Only women, however they identify, have uteruses.

When you start diminishing women via language, you diminish their rights.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. And some men! It's a big world!

Some men assigned male at birth are actually born with a uterus. Acknowledging that does nothing to diminish women's rights.

When you narrow the understanding of women, the more women are hurt and their rights are diminished.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

25. Persistent Mullerian Syndrome (a DSD)

Only occur in males.

They will be infertile. They will not be able to have children.

One thing with people with DSDs, though, they will tell you not to drag them into the debate.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. .

One thing with people with DSDs, though, they will tell you not to drag them into the debate.

Some will, some won't. Again, it's a big world.

[cabot]

29. Disagree

Only biological women have uteri – though some may have had it removed. When you expand what woman is, you dilute its meaning. Abortion no longer becomes a woman’s issue because “everyone” can get pregnant. Gender ideology should be respected, but it doesn’t trump biology. Biology is real, like the earth is flat or climate change is real.

Girls in Africa/ME cannot identify out of FGM. Women who are kidnapped and trafficked can’t identify out of being used and abused. Women are discriminated, to quote RGB, on the basis of our sex.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

31. .

Only biological women have uteri – though some may have had it removed.

What is a "biological woman"?

When you expand what woman is, you dilute its meaning.

When you narrow what a woman is, you will exclude people who really should be included.

Abortion no longer becomes a woman’s issue because “everyone” can get pregnant.

What is lost in that?

Gender ideology should be respected, but it doesn’t trump biology. Biology is real, like the earth is flat or climate change is real.

Absolutely, biology is real. It's also bigger than XX/XY or the presence of an organ.

Girls in Africa/ME cannot identify out of FGM. Women who are kidnapped and trafficked can’t identify out of being used and abused. Women are discriminated, to quote RGB, on the basis of our sex.

So...the definition of "woman" is how a person can be the worst hurt? Their victimhood? None of the people you mention here are ever transmasc? Living as a man? Huh.

[Emile]

26. Proudly displaying their stupidity and pandering to their ignorant base!

[milestogo]

33. Its amazing how frequent and obvious their bait-offerings are.