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Kavanaugh is going to get confirmed, we all know that. A lot of women will be very angry. Some might even take to the streets. But this wont be the tipping point. There wont be a tipping point, there never is. There will just be the subterranean lava flow of womens anger slow, blistering, savage and inexorable. Well go to bed angry, well get up angry, well drink our coffee and fix the kids breakfasts angrily, well drive thru car line and to work angry, our male colleagues will ask each other if were on the rag, well eat silent lunches with rage and well pick up groceries on the way home with vengeance on our hearts. Well kiss our partners and our kids goodnight wrathfully. Well cry hot, silently screaming tears in the middle of brushing our teeth. Well go to bed angry. Well get up angry
Nothing will seem to change for you. But the mother of a 32 year old man will suddenly snap at him to Grow up! when he complains that hes pretty sick of frozen dinners lately. That quiet chick 3 cubicles down will show up out of nowhere and tell a gathering of dudebros that shell report them to HR if they dont shut up. Theyll call her a bitch under their breath as she turns around, but she wont care. The teenage daughter will ask her dad if hed still find it funny if she was the punchline in his favorite joke. Hell scold her for talking back and look at his wife, who will look back and say nothing. Another daughter will say nothing to her father ever again.
The anger will shift, seismic but unseen. Before the lava used to burn us to ash on the inside. Its bubbling over now. Enough of us have ripped open our bodies to let the boiling soil of our lives out that the heat itself causes fires. Sure, you can put one or two out at a time. A single flame is easy to catch. But the lava is elemental and everywhere. Kavanaugh will be confirmed. And in less than a generation hell be a petrified ash fossil, frozen in a rictus of agony in the new Pompeii. Nothing will seem to have changed, until its too late. The lava of our anger is going to cover the earth and bury you.
Audra Alexander
https://scarletvirago.com/2018/09/28/lava/
AZ8theist
(5,464 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)She is a magnificent writer.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dalton99a
(81,508 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)I'll take that bet. He's toast. But the Republican gameplan to focus all the attention on his sex crimes instead of the mountain of other evidence proving he is too biased to sit on the bench.
Distraction. It worked. While everyone's focused on the awful sex crimes, he gets a pass on everything else.
DFW
(54,386 posts)Considering all that has come out/is coming out about this piece of trash, I think all but about ten Republican Senators are wishing they never heard his name right about now. Nine of them actually think he's wonderful, and Lindsey Graham is just regurgitating what Hannity told Trump to tell him to say (I man, apart from "arf" and "please pass the Alpo" .