New York Magazines Carmon: Hearing Showed ‘Men Are Allowed to Get Angry in a Way Women Are Not’

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CARMON: "I am a journalist, but I am also a human being. And to see her pain and to see his fury and to see the deference that his fury got — you know, Jeff mentioned that men are allowed to get angry in a way that women are not. Imagine if Justice Sotomayor during her nomination hearing in which senators, some of them in the room yesterday, implied that she was racist and grilled her about her reputation and her temperament and her intelligence, imagine if she had reacted in that kind of defensive rage. So I hope that the senators considering this take stock of what many American people saw yesterday. Certainly not all. I am sure there were a lot of people who cheered his performance, but to me it was absolutely gutting.”