Read Christine Blasey Ford's letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her

[gracchus]

Interesting how quiet the people who insisted on downplaying this allegation of attempted rape have gotten after being so outspoken about accurate labels over the weekend…

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…