Up-skirter nabbed, Sotomayor talks race: Your sex and gender morning roundup

- Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Photo: Associated Press)
A WASHINGTON-DULLES airport employee is being charged with taking video up customers' skirts more than 700 times: "David Solomon, a man who worked at the Borders in Washington-Dulles International Airport is facing charges for up-skirting. After receiving a report authorities launched an investigation and discovered more than 700 videos where he aimed the camera up women’s skirts and a guide explaining how to up-skirt. Because of prior conviction Solomon could be facing felony charges."
AFTER THE JUMP: Sonia Sotomayor talks race; the Blade is praised for its White House work; the saga of the alleged stealth oral sex insemination continues:
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THE SAGA of Dr. Richard Phillips and Dr. Sharon Irons continues: "Phillips accuses Dr. Sharon Irons of a 'calculated, profound personal betrayal' after their affair six years ago, saying she secretly kept semen after they had oral sex, then used it to get pregnant," the Associated Press reports. After toiling in Chicago courts for years, "An appeals court said [Phillips] can press a claim for emotional distress after learning a former lover had used his sperm to have a baby. But he can’t claim theft, the ruling said, because the sperm were hers to keep." Irons, who has established Phillips' paternity of the child, claims that she and Phillips had sexual intercourse on multiple occasions during their relationship.
PRAISE for D.C.'s LGBT press: "With The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld now off the Washington beat, there’s often a perception that the LGBT press is absent from the White House and Congressional press rooms," the NLGJA reports. "But with Chris Johnson of the Washington Blade becoming an online sensation for his questioning of outgoing press secretary Robert Gibbs about marriage, it’s a good reminder that the LGBT press in Washington has always covered 'official Washington' and will continue to even if the national press pulls out."
FAIRFAX COUNTY looks for more women-owned businesses in federal contracting.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR SPEAKS about race on the court: "People have views of me and expectations of me that are based on stereotypes . . . People mistake exuberance, passion and intensity for self-confidence . . . I do think I have a special role on the court, but not in the way that you think. . . . I don’t come to the process as a woman of color, saying that I have to come to a decision that will help a specific group of people . . . I don’t borrow Chief Justice Roberts’s description of what colorblindness is . . . Our society is too complex to use that kind of analysis.”
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Talking Figleaf
I think I got distracted a minute ago and posted a comment wondering why that 2005 appeals court ruling about oral sex and paternity has cropped back up in the news this month. (For instance the MSNBC post you linked to is dated Feb. 2005.) The reason I got distracted is that I started looking for any other references to either of the two doctors and... pretty much couldn't find anything that wasn't related to the 2005 appeals court ruling. Nothing about the initial ruling, nothing about other allegations, nothing about the child who'd now be a 10 or 11 year old, and definitely nothing about whether Dr. Phillips might have come to appreciate having a child even if (as he alleges but she disputes) Dr. Irons conceived the child in a very deplorable manner. (I'd be bloody horrified to learn I had a child I didn't know about because I really, really enjoy being a father and it would totally gut me to miss out on the first two years of one of my children's lives, even if the mom was a total dick.) Anyway, the only serious non-knee-jerk discussion of the case I found was this pretty cool and even-handed consideration by Cornell Prof Sherry Colb at FindLaw: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20050309.html. Turns out Colb has written a ton of articles on topics near and dear to both of us, Amanda. She doesn't always come down on your and my general side of issues, but she usually does. At this rate I'll be up all night reading pretty interesting treatments of gender, rape, reproductive rights, LGBT rights, etc, from her FindLaw blog. figleaf
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