re: #8 jamesfirecat

By the way I haven’t been following Kagan’s history as close as some (most) other people have. Why is everybody so sure that she’s a lesbian exactly?

I read/skimmed (75% read 25% skimmed) the piece Charles linked to and I didn’t see anything to suggest it…

If she’s an older woman and unmarried, that’s all you really need to get the ‘is she or isn’t she’ rumors going in some people’s mind. Same thing happened to me when at age 28ish I moved by myself to a small town rural area. It became the ‘thing’ in the gossip circles to figure out if I was or wasn’t because I guess in some people’s mind an unmarried woman without a significant male other only means a couple things. Either I was some sort of loony chick who couldn’t have a relationship with a man or I just wasn’t into them in the first place.

It was an interesting experience that I can laugh about now but it was a bit bizzare at the time.