CNN's Don Lemon made me cry when he cried on TV just now.

[BigmanPigman]

He said he was sexually assaulted and didn't speak about it until he was 30, then this past week a relative contacted him and said the same thing happened to her and she kept it secret due to shame. This is real to men and women. It ruins lives. Patti Davis (Reagan's daughter) is on now talking about her experience. The FBI MUST INVESTIGATE Kavanaugh! Call your senators, call the Senate Jud Comm.

Call the Senate NOW! This means men too!
87% of the calls have been made by women...why is this considered a woman's issue? It is a human rights issue!
Call the Senate Judiciary Comm this week...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
Call them and tell them that they will NOT get reelected by the majority of the US who is against Kavanaugh.
Call all senators and tell them that they are HYPOCRITES and you only vote for reps who have morals and values and who respect women. RESISTANCE WORKS!
Senate DC directory
[phone]

Call the 8 "iffy" Dem and GOP senators too.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1011&pid=2543

[madaboutharry]

1. The dismissive attitude of republicans

is causing a lot of pain for people. The callous remarks from senators diminishing people’s experiences and the damage it does is very hurtful.

[BigmanPigman]

2. It hasn't happened to me, thank god, but I am in tears with anger

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Every time I hear another person's painful story and the flippant, cruel remarks made by Kavanaugh supporters makes me beyond furious. I am very passionate and this really makes me go ballistic in a nanosecond.

[displacedtexan]

4. I was stalked in college but never attacked.

Knowing that someone has the power to know where you are, who you're with, and what you're wearing is truly frightening. It made me get a brown belt in judo and give my daughter a gift certificate for Krav Maga training.

It's the power that powerful people don't want to give up, even though they know it's wrong to use it against others.

[Grasswire2]

3. If we could measure the pain felt this past few days...

....it would be a great flood of tears in American hearts and homes. So many people re-traumatized.

[KT2000]

5. it is just awful

how many people kept this secret.

[PatrickforO]

6. You can count on me. I'm a man, but have called Cory Gardner about ten times so far

asking that he vote against Kavanaugh.

[Silver Gaia]

7. I was in tears tonight during Rachel's show.

I was assaulted in a similar way as Dr. Ford at around the same age, but about 10 or 12 years earlier in time. That was a long ordeal because it happened on school grounds, and in my innocence, I reported it. You can imagine the result.

Two of my best friends in high school were gang raped, one at a party, another taken to a boat dock. One of those young women became pregnant from the rape, carried the child while continuing to attend high school for as long as they would let her, then gave birth and gave the child up for adoption, and worked hard to earn her GED after that. The other one vowed no man would ever touch her in that way again. I cried for them. It hurts for all these memories to be dredged up and relived, and we've all been going through this since we first heard the Access Hollywood tape.

On top of all that, my father was raped when he was 14. He never talked to me about it, but my mother thought I should know when I was in my 40s, so she told me. He was too ashamed to ever talk to anyone but my mother about it. I guess she just needed to have someone she could talk to about it because, of course, it hurt her, too.

During Rachel's show it occurred to me that if I knew of TWO young women in my small group of friends in high school who had been gang raped... how very many women out there must have had similar experiences. I am so filled with both sorrow and anger. I grieve for us all, both female and male, who have been touched by the ugly underbelly of the patriarchy.

[tavernier]

8. At age 12 an old man at a carnival hugged me and rubbed my breasts.

I was scared and horrified and couldn’t move. My dad came along at that moment and pulled me away. On the way home he yelled at me for allowing to be touched, insinuating that I had found it pleasurable. I cried my eyes out because how could he not see that I was the victim?

At age sixteen Two classmates blocked me in a bedroom at a house party and tried to take my clothes off. Alcohol was not involved. I screamed and fought and broke away. They laughed like it was a great joke.

At seventeen, my uncle came into my bedroom when I was ill in bed and tried to give me a chest rub, telling me it would make me feel better, and besides, he had changed my diapers as a baby.

At eighteen I went on a date to a high school play with a college kid who afterward drugged me and took “sexy” pictures of me while I was semi conscious and showed them around to his friends.

These things occurred in the fifties and sixties. I was a very typical young girl from a middle class family in a medium sized midwestern town.

None of these boys/men ever got into trouble or took the least bit of responsibility for their actions. Girls were always made to feel that somehow they had caused the situation.

I hope the world has changed. My 12 year old self wants to see Kavanaugh strung up by the body part he likes to rub in female faces...or just simply get the justice he deserves.