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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Does John Roberts Hate Women?

I read this a few days ago. I went to a coed catholic high school. To be honest the education wasn't that good but at least we weren't sexually warped by going to single sex catholic schools. Locking hormone raging teenagers in same sex schools and layering Catholicism on top while make a person screwed in the head. There wasn't nearly as much homoerotic hazing at my coed school as the single sex schools. I can't imagine the weird, perverse fantasies that may percolate in his mind.


From Salon:
John Roberts actually went public with a strong opinion on a controversial subject: writing an editorial for the school paper vehemently opposing coeducation at his all-boys prep school.
Here's what Roberts wrote in 1972 for the La Lumiere school paper, The Torch:

The presence of the opposite sex in the classroom will be confining rather than catholicizing. ... I would prefer to discuss Shakespeare's double entendre and the latus rectum of conic sections without a [b]londe giggling and blushing behind me.

That ought to alarm James Dobson: Not every 17-year-old can condescend in French and Latin. But conservatives can rest assured that whether or not Roberts is reluctant to overturn Roe now, he would never have voted for it in the first place. Anyone who dismissed all women as giggling blondes in 1972 certainly wouldn't have found a right to privacy in the Constitution in 1973.

Roberts wrote of his horror that girls would spoil the playing fields of La Lumiere: "Imagine the five cheerleaders on the sidelines, with block 'L's' on their chests, screaming, 'Give me an "L."!' Give me a break!" He'd better hope Sen. Lott doesn't put a hold on his nomination.

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