One time, I discovered that the passenger sitting next to me was fearful of flying. It was at takeoff, when I felt a vice grip on my arm. I talked her through the rest of the flight and the landing.

I figured they’d pick a Nancy Grace-type character. 

It’s what Xanax is for.

I was rear-ended on the freeway several years ago and for a long time after that getting on the freeway terrified me. But I still did it because I didn’t have any other way to get to work. Does that make me a liar?

Also, as someone who is terrified of flying but also likes to travel and visits my family who live on the other side of the country multiple times of year...the idea that people who are afraid of flying would never willingly travel by plane is so absurd that it makes my brain melt.

I just looked this version up on YouTube.

Aunt Lydia was asking those questions for the Fox News audience, who does not understand how anxiety works - in ebbs and flows. A lot of the BS questioning by Aunt Lydia was intended to shroud doubt on Ms. Ford, who was able to interweave what happened to her WITH her OWN learned understanding of biology and…

This needs 1000 stars.  No, 1,000,000 stars.

“I don’t like pizza.”

Would that it were also over IRL. Instead I’m sitting here watching a bunch of men grill a woman who is a sexual assault survivor because they’re desperate to protect their groping, raping, way of life that has allowed them to feel ownership over women’s bodies for all of fucking eternity.

Now, now, they probably think she’s a really good assistant! I wonder if they made her fetch the coffee before getting started this morning?

The show is based in Washington, so with the average age of a Senator at roughly 110-120 years old, being “middle-aged” at 59 is appropriate in this context.

Conservative white women in positions of political power rank nearly at the bottom of the trustworthiness scale, being surpassed in untrustworthiness only by militant male feminists.

I tried to look into who Rachel Mitchell is, but google just keeps showing my pictures of Kathy Geiss.

I question ANY woman willing to do what Mitchell is doing. She’s not there to make this easier on Dr. Blasey Ford. And I hate to break this to Mitchell, but the GOP boys don’t like or respect her either, if she’s deluded enough to think so. I’d love to know what is genuinely going through her mind, not the party line…

I think the strategy was “she’s a woman, so she can’t be seen as antagonistic, also it will earn us some Feminist Points (tm)” and “well she’s an expert on sex crimes, of course she’ll be seen as an authority on whether it happened or not.”

Ford’s comment about laughter being the most hurtful detail she remembered really resonated with me, and I teared up when she said it.

Or, put another way: Crimes of sexual violence are the only case where you have to prove a crime was even committed, rather than who committed it.

Starred for "Richie Rich". I watched that more times than I want to admit as a teen. (I had a crush on the butler.)