Before, the lava used to burn us to ash on the inside. It's bubbling over now.

[ehrnst]

Kavanaugh is going to get confirmed, we all know that. A lot of women will be very angry. Some might even take to the streets. But this won’t be the tipping point. There won’t be a tipping point, there never is. There will just be the subterranean lava flow of women’s anger – slow, blistering, savage and inexorable. We’ll go to bed angry, we’ll get up angry, we’ll drink our coffee and fix the kids’ breakfasts angrily, we’ll drive thru car line and to work angry, our male colleagues will ask each other if we’re on the rag, we’ll eat silent lunches with rage and we’ll pick up groceries on the way home with vengeance on our hearts. We’ll kiss our partners and our kids goodnight wrathfully. We’ll cry hot, silently screaming tears in the middle of brushing our teeth. We’ll go to bed angry. We’ll get up angry…

Nothing will seem to change for you. But the mother of a 32 year old man will suddenly snap at him to “Grow up!” when he complains that he’s pretty sick of frozen dinners lately. That quiet chick 3 cubicles down will show up out of nowhere and tell a gathering of dudebros that she’ll report them to HR if they don’t shut up. They’ll call her a bitch under their breath as she turns around, but she won’t care. The teenage daughter will ask her dad if he’d still find it funny if she was the punchline in his favorite joke. He’ll scold her for talking back and look at his wife, who will look back and say nothing. Another daughter will say nothing to her father – ever again.

The anger will shift, seismic but unseen. Before the lava used to burn us to ash on the inside. It’s bubbling over now. Enough of us have ripped open our bodies to let the boiling soil of our lives out that the heat itself causes fires. Sure, you can put one or two out at a time. A single flame is easy to catch. But the lava is elemental and everywhere. Kavanaugh will be confirmed. And in less than a generation he’ll be a petrified ash fossil, frozen in a rictus of agony in the new Pompeii. Nothing will seem to have changed, until it’s too late. The lava of our anger is going to cover the earth and bury you.

— Audra Alexander

https://scarletvirago.com/2018/09/28/lava/

[AZ8theist]

1. AWESOME. Simply awesome.

[lillypaddle]

2. Extremely powerful

She is a magnificent writer.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[dalton99a]

4. The day of reckoning is coming

[Roy Rolling]

5. "Kavanaugh will be confirmed"

I'll take that bet. He's toast. But the Republican gameplan to focus all the attention on his sex crimes instead of the mountain of other evidence proving he is too biased to sit on the bench.

Distraction. It worked. While everyone's focused on the awful sex crimes, he gets a pass on everything else.

[DFW]

6. I wouldn't bet money on his confirmation.

Considering all that has come out/is coming out about this piece of trash, I think all but about ten Republican Senators are wishing they never heard his name right about now. Nine of them actually think he's wonderful, and Lindsey Graham is just regurgitating what Hannity told Trump to tell him to say (I man, apart from "arf" and "please pass the Alpo&quot .