Some thoughts on the Supreme Court situation

[catsittingstill]

Women are slightly over half the population. So women should be slightly over half the Supreme Court. There are nine Supreme Court judges, so that means five of them should be women.

The most we've ever had is two. George W. Bush left us with only one. Of course the next Supreme Court judge should be a woman. The next four Supreme Court judges should be women. Unless Ruth Bader Ginsberg retires in that time, in which case the next five Supreme Court judges should be women.

Duh.

And I'm being moderate and patient, here. If I was really going for true equality and fairness, the Supreme Court should have only women on it for the next one hundred and ninety years, at which point a single male would be allowed to serve and twelve years later, a second male would be allowed to serve, with the court only opening up to allow a total of four males sixteen years after that.

(posted first to livejournal, then here, because I don't have my reflexes screwed on right yet)

Comments

[jenrose]

I hear ya on the supreme court issue, although philosophically I'm not sure that replacing one form of gender discrimination with another is a good idea.

I replaced my shortcut to "post at LJ" to "Post at DW/LJ"

Then i set it to default to crosspost.

No more forgetties.

[catsittingstill]

Thanks for the suggestion.