“That laughter exists on a continuum—it’s the same laughter men share after they’ve appraised your body publicly. The catcalls and lewd comments they hurl your way are a performance for the men around them: your body just a platform for them to bond over. It’s an act of performed masculinity, which in a public setting…

I’m lucky to have a very supportive workplace but I’m so utterly distracted and emotionally all over the place this week. I can’t imagine having to work at a place where it’s that toxic and be dealing with all this at the same time. I’m so sorry.

Thats the biggest irony.
If the situation was switched around, Ford yelling, demanding, interrupting, asking for affirmation from the people that are supposed to be impartial while attacking half of them and Kavanough being the silent, procedural one that controls his emotions and brought a polygraph test and whatnot,…

Incoming 4,000 think pieces (by white people) about “how could this happen?” (because white people) hand-wringing about how everyone else is doing them dirty and not because the majority of white people voted for this shit.

I’m just boggled at the bullshit explanations he’s making up— does he really think that the entire rest of Generation X isn’t listening, & won’t call him out? “No, that is NOT what boofing means, and that is NOT what ‘being an alumnus of a girl’ means, we all went to school at the same time you did, and we all went…

Since I’m doomed to live in the greys, I’m not certain if anyone will see this... Just found this graphic with sexual assault hotline phone numbers within CNN’s Kavanaugh confirmation coverage, and I don’t think it can be repeated enough right now:

I should be shocked that Kavanaugh won even more support after he crumbled at the microphone, but I’m not. Centuries and centuries of religious doctrine codified into law, into how society views itself and its constituents, into who is more or less equal. Women created “sin”. Women besmirched mankind’s perfection.…

Just...this whole thing is so heartbreaking. I too have tried to make my own pain palatable for people; especially those who loved and cared about my abusers. I am watching my own life play out in real time on national television. Fucking surreal.

Oh my god.

Oh my fuck I almost threw up when he was all “you are smearing Renate’s name how dare you blah blah that’s not what we meant.” YES IT FUCKING IS!

This is so fucking hard.  I have family members who not only still approve of Kavanaugh getting the SC seat, but think that Ford is a paid actor.  The willful ignorance runs deep when you’re in a deeply red state.  It’s exhausting.  I cannot even begin to fathom how Ford feels.

Lots - I mean lots (actually, pretty much everybody who’s not an entitled white man, and even some of them) - of people seeing the same thing you’re seeing

A partisan hack who shrieked that the Democrats were all out to get him. Great judicial temperament, eh?

This guy is such an entitled ass he still thinks his life is ruined even as he’s about to be handed the job he’s probably been groomed for most of his life.  Most of white America is on his side, he’s getting what he thinks is owed him and he’s still angry and will remain angry.

The only way to fully appreciate this circus is to accept, a priori, that these shit-sippers believe they are entitled to certain prerogatives as a function of race and gender. It is as simple as that.

A man who can treat a Supreme Court seat not as an honor or privilege, but a birthright. Someone who doesn’t treat power as something given or earned—but something he is owed.

They played it on GMA this morning. I found him so insufferable. I was looking at his wife behind him to, and I feel like she has a story to tell.  I hope she does.

He’s a liar and a fucking entitled drunk liar on top of that. We should start demanding his impeachment from the minute he gets confirmed and we should never stop yelling “Liar” every single chance we get.

This made very angry because as a general rule appellate judges get pissy real fast if you answer their question with question and I am sure Judge Kavanaugh is no different. You think he would offer Senators the same respect  he would demanded from litigators. 

I cringed so hard watching that exchange yesterday. And while he SHOULD apologize, his apology came after a 15 minute break where someone probably coached him, and made him out to be an upstanding guy. It glosses over the original exchange where he was totally out of line and frankly, extremely immature. He was trying…