Chris -
I have worked with victims of sexual trauma and abuse. They do not all react the same way or remember things the same way. Every person is different, and every experience is different. We cannot say that just because you didn't check the boxes A, B, and C, you must be lying.
As I said, if Dr. Ford's story had been too perfect, I would have had reason to doubt it - survivors of abuse don't always have perfect memories of what happened to them. Some do; most don't. That's the reality.
I'm not going to question your own experience or tell you that what you believe about it is wrong. At the same time, I don't think you can dismiss her story simply because how she remembers or reacted over time doesn't match your own experience. Every incidence of abuse is personal, as is every reaction to it. There's no "this is the way it works"; there's only your personal experience, and what happened to you is not necessarily what happened to anyone else.
I believe Dr. Ford, and I believe that Justice Kavanaugh was her abuser. Nothing I heard in her testimony would convince me otherwise. I wish there was a real investigation that would have corroborated her allegations, but it was just a fig leaf to protect the GOP.
Trump has now said that it was all a hoax and that the investigation somehow proved that Kavanaugh was innocent. That is a steaming load of BS - the "investigation" proved nothing at all. If anything, Trump has done more to damage those who are survivors of abuse by declaring that what they say are "evil lies". |
