Comments on: Sonia Sotomayor Poses For Latina Magazine, Is Evidently Wearing Red Nailpolish to Show Off Her Ethnic Pride

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By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:08:51 +0000

I live in a grey house, what does that say about me? *snort*

By: Whit

Whit — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:40:47 +0000

THANK YOU! It’s freaking nail polish! Who cares?!?!

I don’t wear nail polish at all. On my hands or feet. What does THAT mean?!?!

By: Syd

Syd — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:22:45 +0000

Well, clearly the brown means that you were a minority family who was still holding onto your heritage in the evil United States empire that attempts to whitewash everything. As you lost your ethnic heritage, you began to hate the brown that stood for your pride, and desperately wanted to cover it up. This, of course, is evil. Red stands for the devil and the fires of hell, and when you painted your house red, you covered up your heritage and yourselves with red, the color of EVIL and HATRED.

Next, you will move into a white house with a picket fence, which will symbolize your final descent into conformity with the soulless US of A, in a vain attempt to grasp the Western ideals of purity.

Or something.

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:14:53 +0000

That actually made me laugh out loud. (Your response, not that a bunch of pseudo-intellectual douchebags gave you shit for it.)

By: Copa

Copa — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:36:08 +0000

…my house is red, what on earth is a red house supposed to mean? Because I’ll be honest when we decided to paint it the conversation went like this: Me “Ugh I hate brown on houses lets please not use that color” Them “hmm I like this red, we’re painting it red.” Personally I can’t see the depth in that conversation or choice.

By: Syd

Syd — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:17:58 +0000

Yeah, this. Oh, I got a verbal lashing from the more pretentious classmates last year when I commented that maybe the house was painted red because sometimes, houses (especially in the neighborhood the story took place in, which I was familiar with and none of my classmates had ever even seen) are painted red.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:57:36 +0000

“Obama asks moms to return to school” and there’s some woman dancing naked….wtf? Analyze that!!!!

By: Raquel

Raquel — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:53:19 +0000

My thoughts EXACTLY.

By: Sydney

Sydney — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:51:44 +0000

Really? We’re analyzing the color of her nailpolish?

Ugh, I’m an English major, and I love literature, but there are times when even I get sick of trying to spot the symbolism. Can’t the cigar just be a cigar already?