This is going to be their excuse: “Well, while we’re sure something happened to these women, we listened to them, and Kavanaugh was just another high school/college boy partying like they party. People get drunk and they do stupid things.” It was the 80’s and we all did things we regret, right? RIGHT?
WRONG!
I was there — in college — in the 1980’s, at an ivy league school (not the same one as Brett Kavanaugh) and I went to parties. We all went to parties and drank (even though it wasn’t legal). Alcohol was easy to come by. We partied every Friday and Saturday night — between dates and with them — and sometimes even on Thursday nights. There was always a reason to get a keg of beer or make grain punch.
Was there hooking up? Of course! But here’s the thing. I went to hundreds of parties. Nobody lined up to gang-bang unconscious women. There was a fraternity where something like that happened, and all the guys were expelled. And the frat got de-fratted (or whatever). There was a huge protest, too — we all threw eggs at the frat and protested every day until they were removed.
At the parties I went too? There was dancing, and talking, and sometimes I even got to leave the party with a woman I liked (mostly I didn’t). My friends — and I had dozens — it was the same for them. Nobody put drugs in the punch. Nobody violently or sexually assaulted women. Nobody set up gang-rape conga lines. People danced, talked, vomited, and cried, and laughed and acted stupid.
Other schools? Well I visited friends and went to parties there to. Pretty much the same thing.
My point? The excuse is crap. Just because you drink doesn’t mean you get to assault people. That’s not because Kavanaugh was drinking, that’s because he was a sick prick. What Kavanaugh did with his friends was not how we all behaved. It was the exception. And when it happened — at least on my big, giant campus everybody knew about it — people were severely punished. There is no excuse for forcing yourself on another human being — sexually or not — ever. Not even if you are an awesome dad who coaches girls’ basketball. You’re still a criminal and the if the Republicans put you on the Supreme Court — well then they’re an accomplice to a criminal cover up.
And if you are a guy who thinks, “Women don't get it, this is a guy thing.” — even if you phrase it like a Senator — you’re just a s stupid jerk and you don’t deserve your cushy leather senate chair.