Slurs affect men, too I tell my colleague... What Kavanaugh’s accusers say about him are ‘charges’. They ‘claim’ he did despicable acts and humiliated them. He denies them outright... why should I disbelieve what he is saying?
He said, she said, but I was warned — by a colleague on Monday. Yes, by a female colleague who told me to back off about going public with my support of Brett Kavanaugh, the judge courting controversy for alleged sexual misconduct in the United States. I use the word ‘alleged’ with great responsibility here. The man remains innocent until he is proven guilty and I refuse to haul him over the coals for a perceived infraction.
What his accusers say about him are still in the realm of ‘charges’. They ‘claim’ he did despicable acts and humiliated them. He denies them outright and why not after they found nothing amiss in his personal or professional life after six investigations (they’re now into the seventh)? Why should I disbelieve what he is saying?
“Listen, Allan, you better watch what you’re trotting out about the guy. You’ll be in for a lot of flak if you put that out there,” said the colleague, suddenly turning serious. I was convinced she wanted to shut me up and therefore threw the vicious threat about majority ‘liberals’ who wear their confused morality on their sleeves and pat themselves on the back for it.
All my life, I have never gone with the flow. Why should I now? I have no image to be sullied. Bullies like her will not push me around to change my point of view, I told myself. I was bracing for a debate but she didn’t seem interested and suggested I put down my objections in print. I am determined to speak my mind on these pages even if the brave new world order of ‘liberals’ are out in force against me, digging in for a long fight before going to my corner.
I appealed to my colleague’s sense of fairness (no pun intended) to refrain from making this a gender issue. Being a woman, she supported the alleged female victim, was my opening salvo. I am with Kavanaugh on the principle of fair play. It’s that simple. “Who are we to judge?” I continued, all biblical in my attempt to take the higher moral ground. “Do you know all the facts of the case? You were swayed by the hearing that saw Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, now a university professor, alleging the judge pinned her on a bed and tried to take off her clothes 36 years ago when they were teenagers.
She was tutored, she read a prepared statement that she was raped. “Assault,” she corrected me, her anger rising. “He held her down, tried to choke her! I was convinced,” she protested. “Yeah, I know,” I replied putting on my all-knowing air.
The truth will set you free, it is said, but we — the media and the masses are doing everything in our power to deny the facts a decent chance to emerge from that allegedly drunken night with our differing, polarising and half-baked opinions.
Brett Kavanaugh may have had a tipple too many during his school days. He was a wild kid who’s now a responsible adult. That’s so bad, said the liberals, who brought this up just when Kavanaugh was headed to the Supreme Court. Political timing from the deep state embedded in D.C., is my conclusion.
Slurs affect men too I would like to inform my colleague. Kavanaugh was aggressive, she said. Bad behaviour at the hearing upset her. He was in tears while defending himself, like his accuser Blasey Ford who was coached and remembered that night as clear as day, which makes me wonder if she was drunk, too? How do you conclusively prove Kavanaugh, then a minor, is guilty today? Tears lose their meaning when truth and justice are the real victims.