Sotomayor got a taste of such ignoranceinher third year of law school, when during a recruitment dinner, a lawyer from a Washington law firm asked the summa cum laude graduate from Princeton whether she thought she would have gotten into Yale Law School if she hadn't been Hispanic.
Inher opening, Irina Bokova spoke out against recent acts, driven by intolerance and ignorance, that seek to incite hatred against the values and beliefs of other people.
While I'm delighted that Mary Beard is comfortable inher body, to conclude from that that battles around female objectification and sexual commodification have been won betrays a serious ignorance of the ongoing issues of ageist and sexist discrimination faced by women in relation to their appearance.