Why Kavanaugh's accusers can't remember everything

MaggieButthead · 2018-10-08T17:07:10+00:00

My favorite part is the end where they guy says evidence is getting in the way of people taking credible sexual assault allegations seriously.

BeneficialBlock · 2018-10-08T16:54:48+00:00

The video is a piss poor piece of propaganda presented as supposed education. It assumes that Only Women count, that only women have trauma related memory deficits and they fail to make their case outside of then Jingoism of The Cavanaugh Confirmation circus.

So only Female Rape Victims have a Hippocampus?

Actually the part of the brain affected by Trauma and involved in Trauma processing is the Amygdala (the Ancient or Lizard Brain). It is the part of the brain/body that deals with Flight and Fight and which reduces sensory input to only that which is useful for survival during experienced danger. It is also intimately linked to Memory and Memory Encoding. It acts a bit like ram in a computer - if the ram access is needed at a greater frequency than the ram can be written to hard drive, the ram gets overwritten and memory is not written - it's lost.

Yes the Hippocampus is related to memory, and lack of memory, but it also works in the same way for Cavanaugh. The Video simply glosses over and buries that issue and presents the view that a 30+ years old HeSaid/SheSaid has any value in judging anything and the Women must always be believed. Who knew that the Female Hippocampus and Brain was so much more reliable than The Male Hippocampus and Brain? And, all of that has to agree with the Feminist Paradigm of all brains are equal and there is no such thing as a male or female brain.

The Video also fails to address one of the most significant points, that actual memory fades and is damaged over time and we use Constructed Memory to replace it. Example - on Tuesday I go Bowling, so on a Tuesday 30 years ago I had to have gone Bowling. The fact that the person was on holiday in Africa paddling up the Zambezi River is not recalled immediately unless that ACCURATE memory is reconstructed from external external prompts such as a calendar.

It's also linked to the issue of Flashback. People with PTSD have brain damage that causes the amygdala to have a hair trigger. It will fire when not correct and tell the human they face danger. The human can see they don't and so do not act to Fight or Flee. This gets ramped up with the amygdala finding new ways to make us Fight or Flee and it activates memories that are traumatic in support of its demand that we Fight or Flee. This broken safety response in humans can and will take disjointed traumas and mix them up to try and force a response. It's particularly an issue in Complex (Multi-trauma) PTSD. It's bizarre dealing with someone who tells you it was "The Guy In The Blue Car Who Domestically Abused Him" when there are two events, a Car Crash and Spousal Abuse getting mixed up due to a misfiring and damaged PTSD driven brain. The person can even be fully aware of the Mixed up Pseudo memory and have to fight to deny it, whilst still not being able to correctly recall the two memories that are of two separate events. A Congressional Hearing is not the place to deal with the complexities and nuances of reality when any Trauma is involved.

Having dealt with Male Victims of rape, domestic abuse, Narcissistic Mother trauma, Related PTSD and even those traumatised by being left Suicidal for extended periods, I know only too well that Men also have a Hippocampus and an Amygdala - that it works the same as Women's - that the PTSD is the same.

The only significant difference between men and women in PTSD is that women can suffer Traumatic Birth related PTSD. Men simply can't as they don't give birth.

As I said, that video is Piss Poor Propaganda which no doubt makes the Woke little Hipster presenter feelz ever so good, but he has actually thrown all Trauma Victims with PTSD under the bus for some click bait and Gynocentric approval.

nforne · 2018-10-09T02:41:27+00:00

Years ago I went paintballing with friends, and one mission was to recover a heavily guarded ammo box and return it to base. Two teams were competing for the prize.

I hatched a brilliant plan. I had a hunch where the ammo box was, and guessed that the other team would head straight for it. Rather than battle the enemy team and the guardian, I led my team to the enemy bunker which had been left unguarded. We sat and waited until what was left of our enemies delivered the prize into our laps. The plan worked perfectly.

Years later, I was immodestly reminiscing with a good friend about my moment of glory when he stunned me by saying it was his plan, not mine. I've known him for years, and he wouldn't make it up, so... one of us was mistaken. One of us has a false memory. We still don't know who.

The only reason I doubt myself is that I know and trust the person who contradicted it. If I disliked him, or if he was the villain of the piece, I'd have believed 100% that I was correct and that he was lying. I'd have passed any polygraph test.

Title	Why Kavanaugh's accusers can't remember everything
Author	hammyhammad
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Date	October 8, 2018 3:35 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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