Kavanaugh's alleged victim, a California psychologist and professor, tells her story

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I am so afraid it’s happening all over again; sending the message that ‘sexual assault and harassment doesn’t matter.’

Well, you see, it’s a matter of semantics and labels…/s

It's not important to me that an individual was restrained against their will. It is, however, important to me that someone not consider it rape. Because labels are more important than actions

I don’t mean to say that most allegations should not be believed, nor do I wish to denigrate people’s pain. What I read in the New Yorker (the only detailed account I am aware of), is that the woman alleges she was held down, that Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth, and that “he attempted to force himself on her”. It doesn’t say how, it doesn’t say that any clothes were removed, it doesn’t say that he tried to rape her, it doesn’t say that she was While it might be true, and it is worth inve…