Posted on 10/02/2018 8:50:08 AM PDT by TigerClaws
I was at my favorite bar recently, just a few blocks from my apartment, when the boy who raped me came over to say hello and give me a kiss on the cheek.
It had been more than a decade since I’d seen him, and for a moment, I was shocked. But this is what it is to be a woman: You smile politely through thousands of life’s indignities in a body that sometimes feels as though it isn’t your own.
Christine Blasey Ford, who recounted the worst moment of her life before the entire country on Thursday — reluctantly but with incredible poise — knows this. Her account of running into Mark Judge, an alleged witness and accomplice in her assault, at a grocery store shortly after the attack, hit home for me and many women.
A female friend texted me on Thursday, saying Dr. Blasey’s testimony about that encounter had sent tears streaming down her cheeks. “That feeling, too many of us know it, and the muscle memory of it is so deep that it is something that can never be forgotten,” she wrote. ADVERTISEMENT
For so many of us, this week has been a collective mourning, a deluge of grief and trauma. We watched Dr. Blasey, and we remembered.
We sat beside Dr. Blasey in that Senate committee room, staring out at a sea of white-haired men.
We felt the eyes of millions of Americans pore over us, searching to see if what we were saying was the truth.
We watched a federal judge seethe at being accused, his body seeming to grow larger with rage as though he might be able to reach through the television screen and grab us.
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What if you regret it because it wasn’t much fun? Does that count?
The first woman learned something, and she sounds like a good person. The other two posts are from women who are pure evil. They are scary dangerous, and I hope they receive justice if they file an accusation based on those standards.
No, slut Chrissy didn’t want her mama to see her flirting at the grocery store so sent her mama in another door. ****IF*** she had ever set foot in the store.
Return customers aren’t victims.
Does that “rule” apply to a Guy as well?
Regret is not rape.
He probably held a door open for her and she was forever traumatized.
Some people want to be victims.
Why are there so many insane people full of evil?
After rape, you go to the police and you get treated in the ER. None of these were said to have happened with the ford claim.
There is no such thing as retroactive rape. Consentual sex cannot be changed, after the fact, to rape.
“I dated him afterward.”
Wtf is wrong with these people? They change the meaning of words at their whim. So they can call anything “rape.”
Got news for you: If you dated him after, you weren’t “raped.” No woman actually raped would date the guy after. You’re just an idiot.
Thaz a truf. It is absolutely insane the way “sexual assault” has been defined lately. Pretty soon it will be considered sexual assault to hold a female’s hand or even open a door for her. #somepplsuk #beammeupnow
I got a dozen donuts and ate them the other day. The next day I regretted it.
Did the donut store rape me?
I was at the bar Saturday night and drank too many shots. The next day I really regretted it.
Did the bar rape me?
What is wrong with women.
Once again, it proves to me what a wise teacher told me and some other young men many years ago - Christian behavior is not only an abstraction about “loving God,” but at a most basic level, the Christian moral framework is simple rules for self-protection, keeping society sane, and doing the most good for the most people.
Some have pointed out this is Title 9 gone mainstream.
Starting with college campuses, Obama insisted that colleges punish men accused of sexual assault. The courts became kangaroo courts with Ken presumed guilty.
Leftists want those rules applied to traditional courts so they can destroy any non communists. They’ll do the same with speech codes
The First and Second Amendments to the Constitution have to make way for the New Order. Guilty until you prove you are innocent. Hate speech is mom speech. Freedom is slavery.
We sat beside Dr. Blasey in that Senate committee room, staring out at a sea of white-haired men.”
Yes, because we know that Booker and Harris and BloomieThal and Feinstein would gather The Truth, eh?
Maybe the result of all this insanity will be to make celibacy a ‘thing.’ And maybe group dating will come back. Go out with friends who can testify later, if necessary.
Truth! And yet, there are some men who are attracted to that “crazy”, so they marry them and have (potentially crazy) children.
I regretted marrying my ex...before she raped me in divorce court. :)
Seriously, where do The Slimes and Compost and nbc “find” these idiots?
Mental asylums? Prisons? Deep within the DNC?
This individual is insane.
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