It's been almost a year since I made this blog, which has no posts (unless I manage to finish this one.)
The Kavanaugh confirmation has unnerved me. One of my best friends (who is a Distinguished Scholar) wrote me that she doesn't think the Kavanaugh-Ford difference of opinion should be called sexual assault. Because it happened to everybody she knows. (She's 63 and studied at Stanford and UCLA, not in the same order as I did.)
It matters. People are infinitely variable in their vulnerability. Christine Blasey Ford was more sensitive at 15 than I was at 11. It's entirely possible that her life before Brett Kavanaugh was so protected that nobody had ever hit her or yelled at her.
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