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Out of the Woodwork

“Bullshit. Yet another woman who thinks that believing women is more important than respecting due process and the presumption of innocence.”

This is how threatened men respond to being called out for their bullshit. And this:

“A dog wouldn’t fuck you, you old fat pig ( no offense intended to pigs)”

If there is one gift that Trump has given us, it’s to draw out the shite that lives in our midst. If nothing else, we can see the sewage. The haters, the racists, the men who despise women, and who believe any man’s word over a woman’s. The men who desperately want to control women who speak out, who speak their truth.

The story that drew these ugly responses out of a Medium writer who, for good reason, has almost no followers- is my piece written during the Kavanaugh hearings. Like so very many other women, Ford’s ordeal not only reminded me of my own, but it rang with that awful truth of what happens when we call out our abusers, our tormentors, and the men who support and perpetuate that behavior by viciously invalidating anyone else’s story.

Ford’s account was almost identical to mine. For every woman that I know who was raped decades ago, for whom those experiences continue to inform our lives, our self-worth and our relationships, when she spoke…