DU photo pros - can you grab Christine Blasey's 1983 school photo?

[blm]

It’s used here under the 5th subject.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford/

We need to use this photo of the child who was assaulted. She could be anyone’s daughter or granddaughter, or sister. Even many Republican senators.

[Leghorn21]

1. Will this work?

[blm]

6. That's the one. Hopefully more will use it.

Last edited Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:45 PM - Edit history (1)

I haven’t seen it on fb or twitter.

[blm]

17. Leghorn, can you post this in an OP and put it next to

the one of her taken the year after? The difference in her face is striking. As if she aged 5yrs after the trauma.

[Leghorn21]

21. Done, my friend

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211155008

[blm]

26. Sorry you're catching flak - I guess others don't see what we see.

We see the story she told. They don’t see it. Feel free to delete.

[Leghorn21]

27. You know, I think I will, b - I had no idea this would be such a horrible thing to post, but I'm

going to disappear it!!

Take care, b

[blm]

29. Appreciate the efforts

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[honest.abe]

2. Its here.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford-high-school-1980s/

[blm]

5. That isn't the one. It's the one above.

The one you posted is from college and is more widespread. But, thankyou for taking the time.

On edit...I was mistaken on timing of your photo. It is of Christine in her senior year which would be a year or two after the assault. Mea culpa.

[honest.abe]

7. Right under the photo it says from Holten Arms 1984 yearbook

Issuu Scribe 1984/Holton Arms
Christine Blasey’s page in ‘Scribe 1984’ her yearbook from Holton Arms School. On her page she quotes song lyrics, writes a letter to her family and includes a photo of her and her brothers.

[blm]

9. Oh....sorry. But, the incident happened when she was 15.

I thought the older photo of her was from college, because she looks so much older than she did just a year earlier.

[honest.abe]

10. Yeah, I guess that photo is one year after the incident.

She definitely looks much older there.

[blm]

11. It shows how assault can change a person. She looks haunted.

I know many women who cut or changed their hair after being sexually assaulted.

[blm]

14. The more I look at both photos the more I see of the drastic change in her

demeanor. Truly haunting.

[honest.abe]

15. Yeah, I think I see that too.

Especially in her eyes. Sad.

[blm]

16. And fearful.

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[JI7]

18. it is ahuge difference. not just physical but the 2nd clearly shows

more fear, worry. while the first is more normal smiling school girl.

[blm]

20. Exactly - I can't post photos and hope someone will put both together

in its own post and direct people to observe the difference. I think it’s unmistakeable.

[madaboutharry]

3. When you see her at that age

you understand how she was just a young girl and must have been so traumatized by two boys dragging her in a room and assaulting her.

[salin]

4. The comments on that thread are awful.

I am not that familiar with heavy.com but guessing either they have a very right leaning readership, or some rw site has tagged this article and their minions have flocked the comments.

[blm]

8. I haven't found the photo on any other sites.

Surprisingly, the left sites haven’t found it to use. I think it is a VERY important component.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I was just about to say that. It just shocks me how horrible some people can be.

I am so upset after reading those comments. Is this normal for this site? It makes me never want to go back there if that is the kind of audience they attract.

[salin]

13. I don't know. Never thought of it as rw-ish

but don't read it that often.

But I have seen an item on a centrist or left site - get swarmed by rw trolls based on some publicity on the article/item being posted in some dark rw corner of the net.

[JI7]

19. this is a huge issue right now so the right wing and other trolls are very active

even saw the regular du troll who doesn't regularly post do so on this issue.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Why do we "need to use the photo"?

[blm]

23. Because it represents accurately who was targeted for assault. A 15yo girl.

If you can’t relate then move on - some of us can relate and can empathize with both photos.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. This really rubs me the wrong way.

This sets a very specific bar for future victims to reach. And in some cases, it's unreachable.

[blm]

28. I get that, but some can relate as Ido.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

30. "Relating" has nothing to do with it. This is invasive and does nothing to help her.

[blm]

31. In your view. The photos are public and I see them as evidence of her trauma

as SHE has told it. I believe the trauma has been a lasting one for her even after all these years. In the second photo it was still fresh. Some of us see it and some of you don’t. Leave it at that, but, it most certainly isn’t wrong for those of us who do. And certainly isn’t malicious.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

32. Parading her trauma and encouraging other people to consume it is ghoulish, doesn't help her and

doesn't help other victims.

[blm]

33. She's made it public so people can learn that teen girls get treated this way while

their attackers get away with it because of society’s refusal to examine the culture that allows it to continue, and even rewards the attacker.

She made it public knowing it would shape the arguments on both sides. I see the photos as evidentiary and that the trauma shows on her young face. And you don’t. Enough.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

34. We know her story; we don't need to pick apart her appearance. You have no idea why she looks the

way she does in any of these photos, and your insistence that these photos are some kind of special evidence only you and a few others can "see" and "understand" implies that trauma is visible and visible effects of trauma are irrefutable evidence. What of the victims who don't have the look you insist should be seen by everyone?

[blm]

37. You're just digging in at this point. You exaggerate what I said to make your point.

I never said what you are claiming. If anything you are the one insisting that only your view is correct. I said I see them as evidentiary, and some see the same. I don’tinsist that everyone see it my way, because we all have different life experiences and observations and we express them here. Mine aren’t 100% perfect every time and neither are yours.

I feel my observation on this is accurate because I am familiar with that secret pain I see in the latter photo. Now....isn’t that enough for you?

[mythology]

35. Except it is malicious to other victims

That they don't "look" like victims in some random person's eyes. There is literally no correct way to be a victim.

What happens to women after they are sexually assaulted?

After a sexual assault, women can experience a wide range of reactions. It is very important to note that there is no single pattern of response. Some women respond immediately, others may have delayed reactions. Some women are affected by the assault for a long time, but others appear to recover more quickly.

In the time just after a sexual assault, many women report feeling shock, confusion, anxiety, and/or numbness. Sometimes women will experience feelings of denial. In other words, they may not fully accept what has happened to them or they may downplay the intensity of the experience. This reaction may be more common among women who are assaulted by someone they know.

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/ptsd-overview/women/sexual-assault-females.asp

If it were easy to look at somebody and see who they really are, Jeffrey Dahmer wouldn't have had 17 victims. You are looking at the pictures with the knowledge of what happened and applying that to the pictures. Your bias is clouding your judgement.

[blm]

36. I made that point. I said I relate because my face showed the same in those years.

I don’t expect all to react the same way to what happens to them, but, I do recognize it when I see a shared pain in the face of others.

[obamanut2012]

25. We don't

The OP with her photos is really terrible, and has no place on DU.