he's such a wonderful human being for not raping us, we'll ask softball questions to prove it...

the words for lady parts. They want no part of that.

a few yesterday ago?

In contrast, of 10 Democratic senators on the judiciary committee, 4 are women, 3 identify minority (Kamala Harris, Mazie Hirono, and Cory Booker), and 5 are white men.

they make up.

It's an effort to neutralize her by having members of her own sex question her.

Like their belief that Sarah Palin couldn't be criticized because that would be an anti-woman move, it only reveals there is no nuance in the Republicans' understanding of women as citizens and whole, independent individuals.

(And let's not forget how little they know about women's bodies, how much they see women as satellites and servants of men, and how hard they find it to let women speak without interruption, be they senators or Supreme Court justices.)

Here's how white christian evangelical men run the country:

1) have women ask other women questions;
2) ignore the answers; and
3) do what they were going to do anyway.