It was about ten minutes after Christine Blasey Ford began her opening statement during Thursday's Senate Judiciary hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh that I began noticing the tweets.
Rebecca Traister, a columnist at New York and author of the just-published book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, followed with a "Genuine question: were men out there brought to tears or shaking visceral response [sic] by that? Because the messages I have from women, and what's happening in my own apartment, suggest that many many women were." Others reported seeing women in cafes and airport lounges crying.
The coldness of the congressional rules, the irritation of the committee's fumbling chairman Charles Grassley, and questioner Rachel Mitchell's matter-of-fact interest in the process that had pushed a reluctant Ford to the Everett Dirkson hearing room made a jarring contrast with the psychologist's combination of conviction, fear, and almost-desperate agreeableness.
The actor John Cusack accused Kavanaugh of crying "Cause a life time of snarky country club Ass kissing GOP water carrying groveling to power-is going down the drain-fast." "Pure aggrieved entitlement," Cusack concluded, repeating a meme that proliferated on social media.
The Kavanaugh haters might be cruelly partisan, but they are right about this much: the judge's sadness and indignation cannot give us insight into the reality of what happened in the summer of 1982 in suburban Maryland.
The tears of the thousands of women who wrote on Twitter or op-ed pages or called into C-Span about their own experiences may suggest that sexual assault is far more widespread than many imagined.
Their tears tell us nothing-or shouldn't-of what happened to Ford.
https://www.city-journal.org/ford-kavanaugh-testimony-16199.html
Rebecca Traister, a columnist at New York and author of the just-published book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, followed with a "Genuine question: were men out there brought to tears or shaking visceral response [sic] by that? Because the messages I have from women, and what's happening in my own apartment, suggest that many many women were." Others reported seeing women in cafes and airport lounges crying.
The coldness of the congressional rules, the irritation of the committee's fumbling chairman Charles Grassley, and questioner Rachel Mitchell's matter-of-fact interest in the process that had pushed a reluctant Ford to the Everett Dirkson hearing room made a jarring contrast with the psychologist's combination of conviction, fear, and almost-desperate agreeableness.
The actor John Cusack accused Kavanaugh of crying "Cause a life time of snarky country club Ass kissing GOP water carrying groveling to power-is going down the drain-fast." "Pure aggrieved entitlement," Cusack concluded, repeating a meme that proliferated on social media.
The Kavanaugh haters might be cruelly partisan, but they are right about this much: the judge's sadness and indignation cannot give us insight into the reality of what happened in the summer of 1982 in suburban Maryland.
The tears of the thousands of women who wrote on Twitter or op-ed pages or called into C-Span about their own experiences may suggest that sexual assault is far more widespread than many imagined.
Their tears tell us nothing-or shouldn't-of what happened to Ford.
https://www.city-journal.org/ford-kavanaugh-testimony-16199.html
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