A few posts and reactions from the Kavanaugh garbage:
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/03/raging-bullshit-the-injustice-of-brett-kavanaugh-and-his-enablers/
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/05/from-nation-state-to-empire-state-a-radical-history-of-how-we-got-to-trump/
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I feel like those protesters in the elevator, like a vote for him is a big middle finger to women and me personally. I've not even had a physical assault and I feel this as viscerally as a trump's election. I can relate to going up against power and losing every time in a rigged game. When I attended church, I went against the elders two times, each time with a formal-ish meeting (2 elders and another guy) like they were taking me seriously. I was sticking up for these two honest and earnest brothers in kind of an elders word against theirs. The issue isn't important now. I came in wanting to know the elders' side of the story because it appeared one was lying and they'd said we could come to them to clear the air in a spirit of openness. I didn't want to be led by these men who claimed to be instruments of god who made fun of people and lied about it, among other things. I was ready to leave. I was ~20-25 and they proceeded to manipulate things so that they were demanding answers from ME. And then they told me that if I left the congregation, people might follow and that would be my fault for leading people astray. I just cried and promised to stay. I wish I'd recognized my power and leverage in that moment and just left right then.
I guess I feel that hopeless now with the whole recognition of Ford as credible buuut we have to go with Kavanaugh because the party "values" are more important and there was no actual evidence to convict criminally, soooo... We're taking our chances with the beer soaked red faced hysterical ranter who turned uncomfortable questions about blacking out onto the questioner, who happened to be a woman, a Senator, whose father abused alcohol.
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It's been said by more than a few folks that I post too much. I get it. I'm angry with the status quo. You'd rather see my lunch and pithy self help mantras. No one's listening to me. That's ok. I'm used to it. But you know what happened when I didn't post or say as much about my deeply held belief in equality and civil rights? I was dismissed.
The only thing I haven't done is grow a penis. Now doesn't that sound silly? Welcome to being a woman.
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