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.
you’re welcome - just wish I had more data to add - her working for a company that produces and abortifacient is really interesting, but having a social media trail of her being pro abortion and super committed to planned parenthood would help explain why she’d light a torch to her life over this.
Unless she’s a narcissist, in which case that explains it.
Latest I have read is that delaying hearing until this Thursday would prevent Kavanaugh (if confirmed) from participating in the Supreme Court’s Long Conference on October 1st.
The Long Conference is held to determine which cases will be heard in the next term.
Apparently, this charade is an attempt to block a Kavanaugh from participating in that effort.
It would be interesting to know what cases are up for review by the SC, and who has a vested interest in them.
Generally, bedroom doors that lock only do so from the *inside*. Yeah, I'd say this is all fabricated.
I also grew up in one of Seattle’s most “exclusive” neighborhoods, although I am a few years older that Ford. A lot of us made some pretty foolish decisions and got into situations we couldn’t handle on more than a few occasions.
I do remember a specific get-together when a young man I had never met before got kind of aggressive. I honestly could not tell you the date - but I do know it was summertime. I don’t think I ever learned his last name - friend of a friend type of thing. I remember whose house it was but I couldn’t tell you the address, although I do know the general neighborhood. I shoved him off of me and might have slapped his face...then I went and found the friend I had come with and told her that I wanted to leave NOW!
All that to say, we were young and dumb and I had a few drinks and I’m sure he did as well. For all I know, he might have grown up to become a happily married accountant who is horribly embarrassed by his behavior. I would never presume to judge someone based on one stupid act when they were 16-17 years old because I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be judged based on some of the stuff I did then!
Her story makes no sense - either she was traumatized, in which case she would have told people about it at the time and would remember every detail of the night (especially since she claims to have only had one beer)or something happened that didn’t really stick in her mind (as in my case) until she suddenly sees a chance to destroy a man with whom she disagrees politically and decides to paint him as the villain in a story she can’t even really remember. Can’t have it both ways!!
I somehow posted to you instead of the guy who said doors lock to keep others from entering from outside. I didn’t mean to make the remarks go to you. Sorry.
I am delighted to be reminded that the FR women are not wilting daisies. Our nation depends on that.
Yeah, why the heck don’t we hear anything about their parents?! She was a minor, supposedly, at an unsupervised party.
no, you can’t.
She wants us to feel awful for her supposed trauma, but her own actions show that if this kind of thing did actually occur, she wasn’t that traumatized by it.
You know an event like that might make you THANKFUL - you think of girls who are raped, murdered, etc - and think “thank God that wasn’t me - I learned my lesson at 15”.
No harm no foul. This issue is bringing President Trump’s people together. I think in the long run it may all just backfire Big League.
I read that Ford claims it happened in the summer. That is why she came to the party in a bathing suit. Is school in session in the summer. Kavanaugh may not have even been on campus during the summer.
They locked the door? I read that she said some guy came in and saved her. Through a locked door?
No, if it happened in the summer school should not have been in session. If Ford had an actual date that would be helpful!
Memories in high school are like when Matthew McConaughey goes to that old museum in the movie Sahara, and the guy tells him that they use big events to remember dates and not the other way around.
So she can’t remember the exact date, sure. But what events were before that? Or after it? Surely she rememebers one of those, and that could be used to calculate an actual date.
Ford said it happened during the summer, and that afterwards, she didn’t talk about it to anybody. Her friend said on social media that it was the talk of the school for weeks afterwards, before also scrubbing all comments about the “incident”.
Ford was an editor of her high school yearbook. She talks about (in the yearbook) about going to parties where people drank until they passed out, and that as seniors, many of the girls (I’m guessing including her) dated sophomores, as they were more innocent. Someone snapshotted this before it was scrubbed. It’s common in abuse cases for the abused to later act out in a similar manner to the abuser.
So I’m reasonably sure that Ford saw or experienced abuse at one or more drunken parties as a high school student. But her story, as told so far, gives no way to evaluate whether Kavanaugh was involved. Obviously, if she had reported this to police with so little detail, the police would have nothing to go on. Smells like a political hit job.
No she says Judge hopped on the bed and they all toppled to the floor. I think the Washington Post has the letter where she makes these claims - it’s shockingly short.
She said to go to the bathroom. How many fancy houses are there without a downstairs bathroom, at least with a sink and toilet?
Well, toppling to the floor wouldn’t stop a rape. I did read somewhere that she said someone came in and she was saved.
Another thing, a strong guy, even drunk, can overpower most any 15 year old girl, not to mention that she said that there were two of them.
she walked out of a locked room unhindered. After a few more moments, she walked out of the house unhindered.
see also #56 here:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3689698/posts?page=56#56
Most interior door locks are so flimsy, they can be broken easily with one moderate blow at the edge of door delivered by an average older woman. They consist of a button on the knob that immobilizes turning the knob.
Ask any mother with irritating teenagers who lock themselves in to avoid parental confrontation.
“They consist of a button on the knob that immobilizes turning the knob.
Ask any mother with irritating teenagers who lock themselves in to avoid parental confrontation.”
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And sliding in a credit card in will open the door-———easy!!!!
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Well, it could be some of the congressmen/women had experience as lawyers
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