Teary quivering along with you. Today is a hard day. 

As a counter-strategy, I think the Democrats on the committee should have all ceded their time to one member—probably Kamala Harris.

My god, I can’t even imagine what was going through her head.  Having to testify facing a bunch of smug men who have made it clear that they have their minds made up regardless of her testimony...  She is one hell of a brave lady.

They are just incapable of believing a woman’s story. One of the most amazing things is that they got Mitchell to use herself as a human shield and Grassley is still interjecting his hateful sexism.

When I first heard that the old white male Republicans were going to hire a female “assistant,” I wasn’t surprised. If nothing else, they need better optics than themselves.

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.”

I wasn’t expecting this but I am literally shaking sitting here listening to it. It’s both nerve wracking and infuriating to watch.

This is so hard to watch. I have to keep taking breaks.

This was such an odd strategy. They needed the optic of empathy, not someone in an adversarial position who is making this look more like a trial. Maybe that’s the point to bamboozle people into thinking there’s some official burden of proof for Dr. Ford involved here, but that is ... not smart. It’s just another…

I can’t even watch it - just reading the live blogs/updates is enough to have me a teary, quivering mess at my desk. I want so much to be righteously angry instead, but I can’t manage it today. I am in awe of Dr. Blasey Ford’s bravery.

After my rapist tried to kill me at a school function six months after he raped me, I had him expelled (only by getting a restraining order, as the school wasn’t going to expel him themselves). I saw him once after, a couple years later, when he came into the store where I worked. He saw me and turned right back…

Rage stroking, and also trying to channel any good feelings I have and send them to Dr. Ford.

I. Fucking. Hate. This. Already.

The fact that he can’t read his own notes properly is giving me anxiety.

That’d be a waste of good pie.  Let’s use fruitcake instead.

Although this may be TMI, last night, I had a flashback during sex with my loving, kind, wonderful boyfriend who has never laid a finger on me in anger. He knew exactly what was causing it, and he knows how hard the last two weeks have been on me. He did all the right things and I was finally able to calm down.

She’s so fucking brave, I want to vomit just thinking of how horrible this is.

I was talking about the emphasis. The former emphasizes “colored.” The former was the terminology used in a derogatory way, and dehumanized the subjects by focusing on “color.” The latter emphasizes the humanity of the subjects and focuses on “people.”

I feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse here.

And yet they’re not the same, as everyone has been patiently explaining to you.