I’ve been angry, of course, but I hadn’t cried because, though I had learned about all this and heard about it, until today I had not really seen it.Ĭhristine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault against her, took everything we’ve confronted - and failed to confront - over the past 10 months of the #MeToo movement and brandished it right in front of us. Americans - men, mostly - fear unseen excesses of the movement against assault more than they fear things staying miserably the same. Society is more ready to forgive these abusers than it ever was to punish them. Every accuser risks more harassment and more hurt. And, in that year, there is a lot we’ve learned. It has been almost a year, after all, of hearing about women who have been assaulted and must live with it for the rest of their lives, and about men who have assaulted them and are living no differently at all. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Christine Blasey Ford answers questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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