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Via Aspasia. "The comments, which are racially and sexually coded, remind me of the 'negative' description of Hillary Clinton as ambitious. I have never heard ambition stigmatized in a male — and certainly never in a presidential candidate. But commentator after commentator portrayed Clinton's ambition as a negative quality, and they seemingly never realized how their language rested on stereotypes. For Sotomayor, being a sharp interrogator and requiring lawyers to be 'on top of it' are negative qualities. These traits are not negative in most men, certainly not white men."