Americans are not going to forget this day. Especially women.

[DonViejo]

By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
September 27 at 12:18 PM

Today is a day we will not forget. It will be remembered, replayed, revisited and reexamined for years. It is a day with enormous sociological and political significance, not just as a symbol or an emblematic event of a tumultuous era, but also something we will probably look back on as a direct cause of change.

As I write this, the day’s hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee is still ongoing. Perhaps by this evening we will know the fate of Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. But we already have a good idea of how this spectacle will reverberate through our national life.

In her prepared testimony, Christine Blasey Ford said, “I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified.” And she clearly was. It would be hard enough for anyone to get up in front of all those senators and all those cameras, knowing that the eyes of the world were on you, even if you were testifying about soybean yields or banking regulations. But to have to describe the most traumatic thing that had ever happened to you, something that you had been taught to treat as a cause of shame? It is almost unimaginable.

Twitter (much less the people I happen to follow) is not a representative sample of anything, so take this as anecdotal, but as I watched Ford’s testimony with my computer in front of me, what I saw from one woman after another were expressions of pain, anguish, even horror. Whether they had experienced sexual assault themselves, watching someone have to describe her assault to the world, seeing how difficult it was for her, her voice cracking from the strain of keeping her composure, was unspeakably painful. I’ll just share a few of those comments:

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The most powerful moment so far came when Ford was asked what most stays in her memory from the attack, and she said it was the laughter: Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, laughing with each other as she was gripped by terror.

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[snowybirdie]

1. He's coming across

As yelling at 80 something Sen Feinstein

[libdem4life]

2. I believe we will come to see this day as a sea change in attitudes toward women.

It won't happen quickly, but you can be damn sure that there are some terrified men out there watching this...similar to how they terrified women. These things are going on as this is unfolding. How many women will suddenly see....there is a way out...it is called full disclosure. Not easy, but cathartic.

New slogan: Back off, Buster.

[lame54]

3. Wait till tomorrow...

When they vote him in

[LiberalLoner]

4. And after they vote him in...can the SC take away the right of women to vote?

Or would that take a bit more than just the SC?