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Look, I know what it's like to be judged. I'm married, but I don't have children, and therefore I'm considered less mature, less responsible, less compassionate, less unselfish, less wise and above all, less of a woman because I'm not a mother.
It didn't even occur to me to think about Sonia Sotomayor's marital status until Rodriguez brought it up. I don't care. Janet Reno wasn't married. Janet Napolitano wasn't married. Condoleeza Rice wasn't married (and I thought she did an abysmal job, but she was still a very smart, accomplished woman in a position of great responsibility). I was more interested in her qualifications, and if her gender entered into it at all, it was along the lines of her being a formidable woman who won't take any shit from anyone (unlike Rice, who got all whiny and wheedly under pressure, or Palin, who got along on her looks and ability to wink).
It almost seems like Rodriguez is attempting, rather gratuitously, to make a tenuous link between Sotomayor and gay marriage, because, you know, gay marriage is the linchpin of America's future, and whether or not two people of the same sex can get married is absolutely key to stopping our economy from bleeding out, reducing the growing number of families who are losing their jobs, home, and any semblance of basic health care, ending two ineffective wars against terrorism, and keeping another ice shelf from sliding into the Arctic Ocean.
He also seems to be insinuating, through this tenuous association, that Sotomayor, because she's unmarried, may be a lesbian, like all those other strong, take-no-shit-from-men women in high positions of power who just never married for one reason or another. You know, I kind of resent that, too, the assumption that if a woman is able to act like a man, and doesn't seem to need a man, that she must be playing for the other team. Even Hillary doesn't get a pass (it's just a marriage of convenience, she's a closet lesbian, etc). God forbid a straight woman should be able to have a full life without the need for penetration.
