“I really hope our country doesn’t fail women again. What happens after [the hearing] is going to send a loud message to people of the United States. Please let us be on the right side of history.” [+139]

I honestly think this is super bad for sexual assault victims. Sexual assault happens pretty flippantly every day, some people are damaged by it and others don't care in the least. It's about how it affects the recipients that are damaged by it. We as a society need to be able to hear these people out without marring them with a figurative scarlet letter (which I think makes the damage worse) but also still protect those individuals in someone's vindictive cross hairs. With the horrible tactics being used against individuals like Kavenaugh only those damaged by sexual assault are going to be harmed in this aftermath. People are going to not believe them. It's like societal wide boy who cried wolf.

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