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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2018, 08:51 AM Sep 2018

Nothing Normal About Allegations Against Teenager Kavanaugh - by Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz

September 21, 2018 3:24 am

Tuesday evening, I was scrolling Twitter for news updates when I came upon this post by Emma Thatcher:

“Hello, female high school student here. I would just like to say that the emergence of this whole ‘teenage boys should get a pass because they’re not mature enough to understand consent’ narrative is probably one of the most unsettling things I have ever witnessed.”

She was referring, of course, to recent attempts to simultaneously excuse and demonize all teenage boys to salvage the reputation of one man, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist and professor, has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when he was 17, and she was 15.

In a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Anna Eshoo, she describes Kavanaugh as “stumbling drunk” as he and a friend pushed her into a bedroom. She writes that he pinned her onto a bed, groped her and grinded against her, and tried to remove her clothes. When he put his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams, she wrote, “I feared he might inadvertently kill me.”

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Nothing Normal About Allegations Against Teenager Kavanaugh - by Connie Schultz (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP

I think your link goes to a Washington Post story by a different author. enough Sep 2018 #1

Right you are! Sorry about that, I've corrected it. Thanks for the heads up! DonViejo Sep 2018 #2

That's the worst part of this, normalizing and excusing rape. lark Sep 2018 #3

AND, in the Republicans' way of "figuring" things out, he didn't rape her. Frustratedlady Sep 2018 #4

enough

(13,262 posts)

1. I think your link goes to a Washington Post story by a different author.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 09:12 AM

Sep 2018

Here’s a link to the Connie Schultz article:

https://www.gazettextra.com/opinion/columns/schultz-nothing-normal-about-allegations-against-teenager-kavanaugh/article_f67c7a64-07a2-599b-a91b-f3c2078ce7e5.html

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

2. Right you are! Sorry about that, I've corrected it. Thanks for the heads up!

Reply to enough (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 09:19 AM

Sep 2018

lark

(23,158 posts)

3. That's the worst part of this, normalizing and excusing rape.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 09:40 AM

Sep 2018

They truly want to make rape not a crime unless the victim is sent to the hospital, and even then if the rapist is white and rich, they will excuse it. Several repug judges have lost their jobs because of their glad handling of rapists, and letting them off the hook because their lives are so much more important than the victims. Ryan has sponsored and supported bills all over the country to give rapists rights to any child that comes from his crime and the moms are forced to allow him to come to her house and has no power to stop him. Repugs were evil nasty hate filled misogynistic bastards long before drumpf, they just got lot worse with his example of assault and actually promoting it.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)

4. AND, in the Republicans' way of "figuring" things out, he didn't rape her.

Reply to lark (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 12:34 PM

Sep 2018

Of course, that is only because he couldn't disrobe her to finish the job. That would be their logic. I'm not sure how they are going to get around his claim that he wasn't there.

The other thing I find curious is how vehement Judge is about not testifying. If he were truthful, it would probably ruin his career, but then it's OK that it screwed up the victim's life? He's the one I particularly want to hear from.

Supposedly, Whelan will come in to save the day for them all. I hear he works for the same company that came up with the Swiftboating of John Kerry. They were pretty sloppy on that one and, from what I've seen so far, Whelan is hurting for good ideas. What does the distance between their houses have to do with anything?

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