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Why is it women are always expected to have something to gain by telling the truth? Is personal gain the only motivation they can possibly have?
Let that be a lesson to us as women to keep our mouths shut and put up with it.I watched them, too. I remember. And yes, sadly, not much has changed in how women are viewed. It's depressing and infuriating.
What Anita Hill went through should put to rest the sad line women do this to get famous or get attention, or to advance their careers. They come forward as victims who are putting their livelihoods (and sometimes lives!) at risk to help protect other women. To speak the truth. To hold men accountable. But they are called liars and treated like pariahs.
I seriously believe anyone who hints at a woman doing something like this for attention needs to take a trip back to 1991 to witness what she went through and see exactly how it affected her career and personal life.
She did the right thing, and what did she get for it?
I voted it depends. It depends on what happened. I am specifically thinking of the Martha Moxley case where one of the Kennedy cousins were involved in her murder but wasn’t arrested for years.
The times were different when this incident took place. What was a 15 year old girl doing at this party where drinking was heavily going on? Why can’t she remember how she got home? How did she get to the party? Was this the group of kids she normally hung around with? She apparently didn’t go with a boyfriend. Why did she go with Kavanaugh when he led her out of the main party room?
I’m sorry. I see too many areas for questionable guilt on her side. Me thinks she wanted to be in the “in crowd” with this handsome guy. She got his attention and her mind let go of her common senses! Had she been drinking?
Did he actually rape her? From what I’ve read, it doesn’t appear he did.
If not, then the experience in the bedroom scared her to death and that’s when she realized the mistakes she had made by following him.
This is my interruption of what happened. I may be 100% wrong! If this is the way it happened, why bring it up and what does she expect to gain? Anita Hill had lots of evidence, and it didn’t help her.
Reading her account will answer many of your questions.
California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault
What were the 17 year old boys doing at a party where drinks were being consumed?I voted it depends. It depends on what happened. I am specifically thinking of the Martha Moxley case where one of the Kennedy cousins were involved in her murder but wasn’t arrested for years.
The times were different when this incident took place. What was a 15 year old girl doing at this party where drinking was heavily going on? Why can’t she remember how she got home? How did she get to the party? Was this the group of kids she normally hung around with? She apparently didn’t go with a boyfriend. Why did she go with Kavanaugh when he led her out of the main party room?
I’m sorry. I see too many areas for questionable guilt on her side. Me thinks she wanted to be in the “in crowd” with this handsome guy. She got his attention and her mind let go of her common senses! Had she been drinking?
Did he actually rape her? From what I’ve read, it doesn’t appear he did.
If not, then the experience in the bedroom scared her to death and that’s when she realized the mistakes she had made by following him.
This is my interruption of what happened. I may be 100% wrong! If this is the way it happened, why bring it up and what does she expect to gain? Anita Hill had lots of evidence, and it didn’t help her.
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So, someone is not telling the truth? And what are the consequences? Who gains, who has everything to lose, who has lost already? Why are we handling a serious allegation this way? We as a country, as a society might be finding out something much more consequential than just the deadlines come next Monday. -jmo
He doesn't respect women's rights. Not raping most women, he has been around in the last 30 0r 40 years, is a low, low bar.
You only have to rape one time and you are a rapist is my book.
However, I am a strong advocate for the wrongfully accused and accusations such as this need serious evidence backing it up.
We cannot let accusations of sexual assault become a weapon. The implications of that are extremely dangerous. Not to mention the damage it does to legitimate victims of sexual assault.
Sure most of us have probably done stupid things, but caused only damage to ourselves and not another. There is a difference between being foolhardy and assault.IMOThis entire situation is such a joke. If she has pinpointed the right person (and there seems to be some doubt about that), and she is not outright lying...
I know of, at least, 8-10 men, and women, who did stupid things in high school but who have led EXEMPLARY lives since. Including myself.
Am quite sure that if we base our supreme court on the high school/college actions most of those currently sitting, they'll all have to go.
This wasn't a groping session and she didn't consent to being thrown into a room by the two males.HE DID NOT RAPE ANYONE! This is a dire problem in this country...rape is horrid, and turning a groping session (especially when the accuser herself was admittedly inebriated) into "rape" is a serious belittlement to those who were ACTUALLY raped.
I graduated in 10 years before Kavanaugh...I was "groped" in a similar manner at least twice...and I am pretty straight-laced! Trying to get to "second base" as we used to call it, is NOT rape.
She wasn't silent. She screamed and as a result Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth!I am NOT a "rape apologist", but one thing I do know, is that horsing around in high school, back in the '80's, was significantly different. No one was educated in political correctness at that time. It was a far different era.
And if I was investigating this alleged incident, I would ask if the accuser, actually verbally told the accused that his behavior was unwelcome and inappropriate. Or was she silent? Men are not mind readers. Silence is often interpreted as "consent". Had either of the people involved been drinking? That also clouds interpretation.
Sure most of us have probably done stupid things, but caused only damage to ourselves and not another. There is a difference between being foolhardy and assault.IMO