I just could not watch today's hearing as I just couldn't take it...

[mrsadm]

I watched for a few minutes and had to turn it off. I just want to cry and scream at the world. Why do women have to defend themselves all the time? Human societies are letting men blame women. Why does a woman have to wear a burqa? Why must we not wear short skirts, or be blamed for causing the problem?

Sorry I am so incoherent now. I hope today goes well for brave Dr. Ford and for all women.

[Solly Mack]

1. I've been watching in silence... until a little bit ago.

I had to calm down before I started posting.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Dr Ford did great

Truth and fairness are on her (and our) side

[thucythucy]

3. I can't watch it.

I've been surfing DU instead to see how it's going.

But seeing it live would be just too re-stimulating for me.

When Graham told that rape survivor, "Call the cops!" I cringed.

I was raped. I went to the cops. And it felt like I was being raped again.

These entitled rich asshats have no idea what it's like in the real world.

[Kurt V.]

4. i only caught a few minutes on NPR

on my ride home. then i tried to open my front door with the car remote. i guess it upset me more than i realized.

[CousinIT]

5. No need to explain. It was tough to watch.

Just take care of yourself.

Some men refuse to control themselves. Instead they want to control women. (?!) It keeps these guys from having to grow up. And it turns women into receptacles for all sorts of male trashy behavior some men don't want to deal with or be responsible for. Besides dumping their semen into women, they dump all their personal behavioral trash into them too. Women have long been personal behavioral trash bins for men in the US. They misbehave and blame women and force women to bear all responsibility for bad male behavior.

Fact: Contrary to popular belief, women don't control male behavior. Women cannot control male behavior or anyone else's behavior other than their own. But some males refuse to control their own behavior or take any responsibility for it whatsoever especially if it involves sex. And women always accept the responsibility for both even though it makes no sense. Our society enforces that gross unfairness and absolutely humanely IMPOSSIBLE paradigm. It's systemic abuse codified by the patriarchy.

Republicans are right now fighting to protect that paradigm. They don't care if a USSC nominee may have raped or sexually assaulted a woman/women. They don't care if it's true. They just want their guy on the USSC. No matter who he is or what he did. They want power over women - not the truth.

Kavanaugh will help protect that patriarchal paradigm on the USSC and they know it. In fact he's the perfect person to do it because of his rapey personality. He's just the guy to make contraception unavailable to most women and to outlaw safe abortions too. And to show the world that men have the privilege to rape or assault anyone they want and it will be allowed (if they're white)

This is why Lindsey Graham is spitting nails right now. They have been called on the carpet. The truth about them has been on display all morning for all the nation to see. And about that, they're having a SUPREME MAD. Poor things.

They know women in America know who they are and what they care about. They know women in America know the TRUTH. And they can run from it for a while. But it WILL catch up to them. They'll be buried in it. Suffocated by it.

Their patriarchy and indifference towards women WILL. NOT. STAND. And they're all mad about that. Too bad. Too bad.