Is it maybe more on target to say that the fitting binary here isn’t female/male but accuser/accused?
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Too me his anger just seem more like a sign of being mad about getting caught then being falsely accused. Like I mentioned in another post I feel like a lot of past 20 men that were wild as hell in their teens and 20s, turn 180 when they get married and have kids. They suddenly quit all their bad habits and get very conserative and religious. I have several friends from college that did just this thing. They probably didn’t push themselves too far with women, but they liked to drink, party and get laid with a lot of different women. And I really feel like that is the case with Kavanaugh. As far as his claim about being a virgin, I can sort of believe that too. I also liked to drink and party and date a lot of women in college, but was pretty bashful so didn’t actually get laid until almost a year out of college with a woman that fit my ideal looks wise, I enjoyed her personality, and she basically threw herself at me. Probably too much info, but just why I can kind of believe that even if he assaulted women he might not have gone all the away with them.
The real issue is his provable lies during these questioning, and he’s loss of control yesterday. They are just not Judge material in my mind, regardless of which side of the aisle he leans. He seems like an intelligent guy but too much like Trump control wise.
To the extent that the accuser is almost always female and the accused is male, I think the genders can stand. In keeping them we also are reminded of the double standards that are pervasive in our society and most alarmingly as represented by our elected officials (and judiciary) who continue to be predominantly men who’ll tell women how it’s going to be.
FYI: 23 women in the senate, 84 women in the House, 19.3 %, and in a country which is about 50-50 women and men.
On Kavanaugh’s behavior, think Brock Turner and Brock Turner’s father: self pity and misogyny on full display. It wasn’t funny in 1982 to write about a woman in your yearbook as a slut; it’s not funny today either.
But this article could have been a lot better if the photos of Ford were not just those of her looking anguished and scared. I watched the whole thing. Most of the time she looked calm and composed. By contrast Kavanaugh rarely looked anything but angry and contemptuous. Why not choose photos that showed her in a more realistic light?
Interesting point there. Another thought about that. The kinds of behavior that Kavanaugh was accused of was bad behavior toward women in group settings. It’s performative and designed to impress other men. Think too of his total fealty toward Trump. His performance (and it was a performance) was designed not to change minds or really assert his innocence; it was designed to impress Trump how strong he was. The fact that most women found it repulsive (just like most women find all the things he is accused of repulsive) is meaningless; they were not his audience. His audience was men who have utter contempt for women.