Monday, September 17, 2018

Didn't Ford betray other women by being silent about Kavanaugh?

If Ford really believes that Kavanaugh tried to rape her isn't her decades long silence a sign that she doesn't care about other women?

We now know that no one else has ever accused Kavanaugh of such a thing but she didn't know that during the decades she kept silent.

Women who don't report assaults until they see a chance to torpedo someone whose politics they don't like are betraying their sisters.

This is an awkward part of the #MeToo movement. We're told we should applaud women who speak up only after others have done so. But silence makes the victims complicit in future crimes.

What we need to do is declare as a society that any woman who says no, or is afraid of physical harm,  no matter what she did before she said no is a guiltless victim if the man doesn't stop.  No woman should ever feel guilty about being raped anymore than she should feel guilty if someone steals her car at gunpoint.

No matter how much a woman has "led on" a man if she says no and he doesn't stop it's all his fault.  Men aren't animals; we can stop if we want to.

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