Kavanaugh-to-English translation: “I just want to be confirmed as quickly as possible.”

Dignity and respect is sexual abuse’s thoughts and prayers.

Painting this as the desperate flailing of a teenage boy pretending successful conquestor is why women find a lot of men’s attitudes about this terrifying and why we don’t - on a basic level - feel safe. Sure, okay, that’s maybe what happened but that sort of laissez faire attitude is part and parcel of the problem.

Kavanaugh’s freshman roommate at Yale also said that Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker, even by the standards of the time, and that when very drunk, Kavanaugh was “aggressive and belligerent”. So, Kavanaugh is asking us all to believe that his sober behavior -which I can believe is better than his drunken behavior- is…

Exactly.  You can give a cow respect and slaughter it with dignity, but at the end of the day it is still made into a hamburger.

Relevant; someone in the rawstory comments posted this;

I’m not here for any man who says they’ve “always” treated women well. It just tells me they’re either lying or not aware enough about the misogynistic society in which we live, which means, yeah, they’ve definitely treated women badly at least some time.

The yearbook bragging isn’t important because of whether or not he had had sexual intercourse—as you say, it’s a trope/cliche of teenage males in our society to brag about the sex they’ve never experienced, no matter how implausible. Thus, the “girlfriend in Canada” jokes that remain evergreen.

One the classmates interviewed said he thought about it every time Kavanaugh’s name came up.

I’ve always found it incredibly insulting when men suggest that they ought to treat women some particular way because of ~chivalry~ or our delicate sensibilities. It feels dehumanizing, realizing that people are just putting on an elaborate performance until you go away and they can communicate honestly with the…

I really hope that, in the case he somehow doesn’t get confirmed and goes back to the DC Circuit (also, as an aside, for all the people rending their garments and gnashing their teeth about “ruining his life” worst case scenario is that he goes back to his job as a judge for the DC Circuit, which is basically the…

Didn’t Dr. Ford have to go into hiding because of death threats she’s been receiving?

“I just want a fair process...”

When your wife has to appear next to you, you’re in trouble.

“I just want a fair process where I can be heard,”

As a former teenage boy myself I could actually buy some of his yearbook bragging as a virgin overcompensating- that actually seems plausible.

There’s a type of man, you know the one I’m talking about, the type that is always polite to a lady, that would never use foul language in front of a lady! The benevolent sexist. It is my experience that these men engage in the phenomenon known as “locker room talk” and say very foul things about ladies when not in…

Renate Schroeder Dolphin, was named on his yearbook page, part of a group of football players’ “unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests,” the Times gently put it.

Selective decency/selective outrage.

I'm disappointed by the lack of "Kava-NAH" protest signs I've seen. The pun is too easy yet all I keep seeing is "Kava-NOPE!"