Posted on 09/22/2018 6:24:34 PM PDT by nerdgirl
I'm 3 years younger Christine Blasey Ford. I grew up in an elite Seattle neighborhood, hanging around country club type places, going to tennis camps, and living in the culture of a girl coming to age in a wealthy enclave in the 1980's. That is not said to impress anybody. It just goes to show that I have an idea what kind of circles she walked in. Having read through the Holton-Arms yearbook pages from that era, I can say that the level of partying among those girls makes the Seattle 80's scene look mellow by comparison. They seemed to be doing college level partying while still living with their parents.
I am not predisposed to blame the victim, or to believe that women should not be heard. While I'm not going to out the survivors in my life, they include several women whose entire life was marred by the horror of sexual abuse. I myself did have several #MeToo moments, which I also don't care to detail here. Suffice to say that my perspective on this is broad, and contains no pre judgement on what a woman should or shouldn't be able to say about her own experiences. And I know what not being believed can do to a woman.
But rather than making me rush into a #MeToo default postion on Professor Blasey's accusations, these experiences lead me to believe that she is lying. I don't just think she is embellishing a little, I think she is outright lying.
Her story contains just enough details to suggest the following horrific elements were present (and emblazen them in the minds and hearts of many #MeToo followers):
1- kidnapping
2- murder
3- rape
Let's look at her own words:
"Kavanaugh physically pushed me into a bedroom as I was headed for a bathroom up a short stair well from the living room. They locked the door and played loud music precluding any successful attempt to yell for help."
She states that it was Kavanaugh, pushing her from behind, and not Mark Judge. That's an interesting detail for such a murky memory, and the fact that people don't have eyes in the back of their heads. This is an accusation of kidnapping and assault, as well as attempted rape. These elements from her story reinforce this claim:
1- she was pushed physically forced into a room
2- a door was locked to prevent her escape
3- the music was turned up to prevent others from stopping the assault
In order for Kavanaugh to have committed the above, he had to have possessed both the desire to hurt a woman in such a way, and the awareness beforehand that this was his intent, otherwise the kidnapping scenario don't make much sense. Why would you need to push a girl into a room against her will, lock the door, and turn up the music unless you intended to harm somebody? You would need to do none of these things if you had a willing participant. So clearly, Kavanaugh had to have intented to commit this act from the get go, in order for the allegations above to be true.
As a psychologist, Blasey Ford knows very well that the crime of rape is about violence, not a crime of opportunism. Men who commit rape are more interested in hurting their victims and gaining power over them, than achieving any kind of sexual satisfaction. Make no mistake about it: she is accusing Brett Kavanaugh not of 1 bad moment of judgement; but of being fundamentally, a bad man.
Many women in the #MeToo movement have talked about their awful experiences with dates gone bad, and guys who didn't want to take NO for an answer. These guys are assholes. But they are different than out right rapists. A guy like Harvey Weinstein, for example - took his actual pleasure out of treating women in an awful manner. Many of his victims were already willing to hook up with him - but that wasn't what got Harvey off. He took pleasure from their pain, their fear, the fact that he could do whatever he wanted to anybody. Nearly everybody on the planet agrees that Weinstein is a bad man.
Since there doesn't appear to be any actual corroboration for this alleged crime, we have to parse through her statement, her actions, and her life to see if we find the necessary corroboration for these claims.
She goes onto describe her alleged attacker:
"Kavanaugh was on top of me while laughing with REDACTED, who periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh. They both laughed as Kavanaugh tried to disrobe me in their highly inebriated state. With Kavanaugh's hand over my mouth I feared he may inadvertently kill me."
So we learn that her would be attacker was:
1- laughing during the alleged attack
2- highly inebriated
3- had a friend jumping on and off of him while he committed this crime
At the same time these actions were occurring, she claims music was music blaring loud enough to thwart any potential help from coming to her aide. It's too bad I'm not a very good or quick animator, as I'd love to pull this into my animation software and try to build this scenario. I think you'd see pretty quickly just how unlikely this sequence of actions would be. Also, she claims that she only had 1 beer. That is not in her letter, so I assume this is information she gave to Democratic representatives. The idea that a girl would only drink 1 beer, while others proceeded to get slobbering drunk - is also unbelievable. I've read she said that Kavanaugh and Judge had been drinking long before she got there, which seems like a piece of evidence as to who invited her to the party.
In addition, the idea that a person can be "inadvertantly" murdered is ridiculous. Murder by suffocation is a highly violent, difficult thing to do. Think about the "Preppy" murder by Robert Chambers, and how that guy's face looked. And he was twice her size, they were both drunk and/or on drugs, and she fought like hell. She is trying to put Kavanaugh on Chambers' level - and don't think it's not intentional. She would have lived through that murder being in the news every day in the mid/late 80s.
Here are the questions I would ask Professor Blasey Ford:
1- How do you know it was Kavanaugh and not Mark Judge who pushed you into the room?
2- Who locked the door?
3- Who turned up the music?
4- Was Judge already in the room, or did he come in later?
5- Did Kavanaugh lock the door, then unlock it to allow Judge in the room?
6- How did you hear Judge talking through the music? Was he yelling?
Her story requires both men to have been intending to commit kidnapping, at the very least. Two highly inebriated guys, who had to have acted in concert here. Does that seem plausible? In my experience, two wasted "laughing" guys at a high school party were more likely to spill beer on you, or even pee on you, than kidnap you. But maybe I never met 2 guys as skilled and determined as Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.
I wonder what the statistics on teenage boys kidnapping girls would be? How about "highly inebriated" kidnapping? Then you have the real clincher in terms of credibility, and its importance cannot be overstated.
1- Christine Blasey Ford's therapist wrote down that there were 4 boys in the room during her attack
Ford says the therapist got it wrong, and only Kavanaugh and Judge were in the room. Therapists are required by law to report crimes against children are revealed during therapy to authorities. So while Blasey Ford's therapist was not required to report this crime from 36 years ago, she or he would have been trained to be extremely careful in taking notes about crimes. To write off the therapist's account as being different due to a mistake on their part is not credible. And it's very convenient if one wants to create an irrefutable allegation against Brett Kavanaugh.
Here are the elements that help create a watertight allegation against Kavanaugh:
1- she cannot remember who invited her to this party
2- she cannot remember how she got to this party
3- she cannot remember a date, or a good approximation
4- she cannot remember where this party took place
5- she cannot remember how she got home (no witnesses to verify or dispute her account)
I don't think not telling anybody in and of itself means it didn't happen. I don't know if I ever told anybody about my situations, as they occurred abroad and I left relatively soon for home. It seems quite believable that few 15 year old girls would tell their parents. But it does make it more likely that this attack did not take place as described. Why? Because if the attack took place just as she described, she should have had a very good motivation to tell a few friends: to protect them from this pair of predators. Many girls keep a diary (I did) - especially girls oriented towards academia and writing. Did she keep one? Does she remember writing it there? I'm guessing not.
She claims this attack psychologically derailed her for up to 5 years. So basically for the entire rest of her teenage years. Ok. So we'd expect to see some evidence for that. The women I've known who suffered teenage or earlier attacks did in fact go through some really hard times. Some things affected:
1- bad grades
2- withdrawing socially (not joining teams, etc)
3- hanging out with bad crowd
4- using drugs/alcohol
5- bad behavior at home with parents, trouble with siblings
6- promiscuity or total abstinence
While Christine Blasey Ford did such a thorough job of scrubbing her internet trail that we don't know much about her at all - we do know that she was a cheerleader at Holton-Arms, an extremely elite private school. We also know that she didn't abstain or stay away from the social scene, and in fact bartended at some point at a hip spot in a summer hotspot for teens. So she didn't go the route of avoidance of the party lifestyle that lead to her own kidnapping and attempted rape.
We know she had good enough grades to get into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - where the minimum grade average for acceptance was probably a 3.5 or above. She went on to get an MA and even a PhD - so obviously her ability to study was not derailed. She went on to marry a successful, professional guy with a PhD from Stanford - and had 2 sons, and now spends her time between mothering, teaching, and surfing at her 2nd home in Santa Cruz.
Sorry if that doesn't match up very well to a person whose life was so badly derailed, that they would now feel it their "civic duty" to destroy another person's life. Her story in fact reeks of having been very carefully crafted to maximize both the ability to destroy the accused, and the inability to refute it. Her recent comments to friends about a fear of flying due to this event, and her claustrophobia being a product of this 36 year old hazy trauma, all point to a very calculated scripting.
We are left with one and only one conclusion: Christine Blasey Ford is lying.
That’s why she’s demanding no lawyers question her.
3 supposed witnesses named by Ford have all denied being there, or knowing them.
Sorry about the Vanity too -I don’t post them often, but thought this would be a better spot than Medium to post a blog style article about this subject!
Inside doors lock someone out.. not in.
Great point.
Counting on “she’s a woman so I believe her.”
Notice a record setting number of coincidental news stories the pasts week: Cosby fights sexual predator label, Reagan daughter recalls sex attack on her, sex offender trial to come up,sexual predator will be charged,Harassers kept their jobs under NBC Andrew Lack,.....All over Fox,CNN, AP, Drudge links——many more than usual in a year, pushed into one week. Odd, isn’t it?
A lawyer can simply sit behind a Senator on the committee and hand him a list of questions and follow-up questions to ask.
The only reason Ford's lawyers included that demand is that they're banking on the all-male Republican committee members to refrain from asking those questions.
I think her crafting of the “locked door” point was to show that their entire intent was malicious from the get go, intending to stop others from coming in and witnessing their act, as well as to frighten her.
You’re trying to confuse a liberal accuser with facts. You know they hate that. Meanie. Go back to feelings.
More, she couldn’t breath from her nose? And why didn’t she warn her friends at the time to stay away from the horn dog?
Someone forgot a question. Why did she go upstairs to the bedroom?
This thing’s an op. Start to finish. A DS op. Ford’s dad was/is apparently a CIA black budget paymaster, too.
I guess I don’t get the feelings part because had this happened to me at least one of the boys would have left that room holding his nether region and gasping for breath. Not all of us females are wilting daisies.
You know a lot of bedrooms don’t even have locks on them. Not remembering the house is pretty convenient, as you might be able to show that in fact no bedrooms in that house even have locks. I have no doubt this is totally made up.
I think this woman may have had a bad experience w/ 4 guys in a room in the 80s - but this account is a carefully crafted story that may or may not be loosely based on that.
an op is how I’ve referred to it this week too. Whoever helped craft it, it’s still an op from start to end.
1. Christine Ford makes a serious allegation against Kavanaugh -- not in a police report or a sworn statement, but in a letter to a Senator and an interview with the Washington Post.
2. She immediately demands to "be heard" by the U.S. Senate.
3. Kavanaugh denies the allegation and states that he'll testify in his defense anytime, and anywhere.
4. Christine Buzzy Ford quickly hires a team of lawyers who immediately begin demanding conditions for her testimony -- including an FBI investigation of a matter 36+ years ago where she is the only one making the allegation.
5. She also demands to have Kavanaugh testify first -- but she won't file a formal sworn statement so he knows what he's supposed to testify ABOUT.
5. Nearly one week after she "demanded to be heard," we still haven't heard from her. We don't even know what she looks like.
Even Maxine Waters and Hank Johnson are smart enough to know that she has zero credibility here.
Unfortunately the hippies and liberalism brought an era of sex and drugs. The Reagan revolution did much to recover from this but much is still needed.
Now date rape is a serious crime and should be treated as such. But from what I understand even if this were to be true she protested and he left. If the person meant to rape her the opportunity was there. No rape, and no attempt of a rape by whoever.
On the constant delays. The begging the Senate has been performing to get her under oath has been sickening. Either they don’t have the votes which I doubt since there would be a back lash of Republican voters or they have some evidence and they want her under oath.
I am thinking they have something on her and we will have to just be patient.
Sorry about the Vanity too -I don’t post them often, but thought this would be a better spot than Medium to post a blog style article about this subject!
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This is a better editorial / commentary than most professional commentaries. Thanks for posting it.
I think you hit upon a very key element in the falsehood of Ford’s story. Her story is remarkably devoid of detail except it oddly contains an extraordinary amount of detail on her alleged attacker, Kavanagh.
I appreciate the post and the intelligence behind it, but dissecting this accusation is like dissecting Star Wars for validity. It’s all fiction. It’s “Jerry Springer”.
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