Zk, talking about anonymous, how that the sexual allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are not longer anonymous, I wonder if women will believe the accuser.
I personally think that men at pigs generally and society always minimalized their piggish behavior as “boys will be boys.”
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While behavior such as that described by the victim is extremely serious and should never be minimized…
And, while I despise Kavanaugh, and while I think making him a SCOTUS judge has the potential to significantly set women back in this country…
Setting a precedent where any person can derail a confirmation or election of a person by alleging previously unmentioned (or only privately mentioned, and not using names) crimes would, in my opinion, be dangerous.
Every candidate who ever runs for office henceforth runs the risk of some nut job from the opposition party making up a story. They can take anything they ever told their therapist and say, “that was about (candidate x).”
I’m not saying Ms. Ford is a nut job. I’m saying that those who follow this precedent in the future might be. I’m saying that even if the current allegation is true – which, to my untrained and relatively uninformed eye, it seems to probably be – the above still applies.
Anybody can say, “(candidate x) did this to me. How come you don’t believe me? The evidence is the same as when Kavanaugh’s confirmation was blocked.” And I’m not sure what the answer would be.
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We discussed this before, and with #metoo, the information economy and girls getting more educated than boys, it’s the beginning of male privilege. It’s only the beginning because women are still defending the piggish behavior of their men and sons. Women don’t seem to have the “sisterhood” the same way that men have “brotherhood.”
American women seem to be behind women in the developed world…
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I presume you meant to say, “the beginning of the end of male privilege.”
Male privilege has been on the decline in this country for some time. But the fight is oh-so-far from over. Unfortunately, we have a long way to go even in this country. Sure, maybe some countries are a little bit ahead of us. But in much of the Middle East, and some other parts of the developed world, and in huge swaths of the third world and the undeveloped world, male privilege is rampant. In many places it’s not even questioned to any significant degree.
The only way to fix this particular problem (SCOTUS appointments) is at the ballot box. Unfortunately, progressives and rational people in general blew it at the ballot box in 2016. Not enough of us showed up. We (all Americans except rich people) are going to be paying the price for that for a long, long, long time.
Let’s not make that mistake again in 2020. Or in 2018. Or ever again.
