What Christine Blasey Ford reveals about womanhood | The Guardian [The expert's guide to feminist privilege and emotional manipulation all condensed into one long puke of an article]

gerbil98 · 2018-09-27T23:40:58+00:00

What a liar

fengpi · 2018-09-27T23:48:16+00:00

Strong, fearless women sure get terrified pretty easily.

Their simpering is both bravely powerful and accompanied by mushy sad violins in the background.

TacticusThrowaway · 2018-09-28T00:13:45+00:00

In a tellingly feminine posture, she seemed eager to accommodate and to please, even before the Republican senators whose objective at the hearing was to discredit her.

Time to first lie (?): second paragraph.

Dr Ford answered questions about whether she had been sufficiently traumatized by her assault, about who paid for the polygraph test that she passed, and about whether she was really afraid of flying. Dr. Ford, who holds a psychology PhD, effectively served as an expert witness on the psychological impact of her own assault, and provided a remedial education to the Senators on the committee in brain chemistry, memory formation, and trauma response.

Then she'd know memories of trauma are extremely questionable after 35 years, and polygraphs are entirely useless.

She dispatched with a bizarre theory posited by Republicans that it was not Brett Kavanaugh that assaulted her, but some sort of evil twin or doppelgänger who Dr Ford had mistaken for the judge.

That's a funny way of saying "she may have mistaken him for someone else".

Crucially, Dr Ford is white. As the preliminary comparisons to Professor Hill’s testimony emerged, many commented on how Dr Ford’s nervous vulnerability contrasted with Hill’s self-possession, poise, and palpable irritation at the condescending and contemptuous treatment that she received from members of the Judiciary Committee. Dr Ford does not face the double bind that Professor Hill did of navigating the racist and sexist attitudes of her interrogators and the public at the same time.

Could you editorialize a bit harder, please? I don't think your bias is obvious enough.

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