You know, I couldn’t possibly care less whether or not Democrats question Alito in a way that makes his wife cry. That’s no sin of theirs. But remarks like the following …

somewaterytart: I don’t think it was fake. I do think she’s a bit emotionally unstable.

somewaterytart: It was immature and she’s probably one of those narcissistic, theatrical types.

Nadai: The public right to know what sort of Justice her ass of a husband would be is more important than her widdle feewings. Stupid bitch.

… are overt cases of contempt for “emotional” women and, in order to ridicule and express contmpt for Martha Ann Bomgardner, freely make use of well-worn tropes of misogynist contempt, sometimes uncritically and sometimes intentionally (“emotionally unstable,” “narcissistic,” “theatrical,” lisped speech about hurt feelings, etc.). One of them concludes with an overtly misogynist insult. The other lists classic symptoms of the pseudo-diagnosis of “hysteria.”

They’re also simply mean and serve no discernible purpose at all beyond making fun of someone for being visibly upset.

If you want to complain about a bunch of newsmedia hoo-ha over nothing, you could complain about that, instead of piling on to ridicule Martha-Ann Bomgardner herself. Why not just leave the woman alone?