“The deferent and visibly fragile academic...makes a lousy role model for young women today, who are too often fed the message that weakness is their greatest strength.” Damn this is good.https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/why-christine-blasey-fords-testimony-didnt-make-me-cry/ …
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Resilience: I suspect that Shriver knows that she’s unusual in this regard. I know that I am, too. What worked for me in the piece was, in part, the focus on building and celebrating resilient women. You clearly are one, while also having your real history. Maybe CBF is too. /end
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I think this piece was deeply unkind, which takes away - a lot - from her otherwise good point about allowing resilience. I actively push back against the *expectation* that sexual assault weakens, but I think it's equally unfair to suggest "I managed fine, so should she."
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Also worth pointing out a lot of feminist discourse on this is NOT reveling in CFBs moments of fragility - they're pointing to how this response has become a societal expectation & shouldn't be (imagine if she'd reacted like BK did instead & how delegitimizing that would be).
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I think the descriptions of her at the hearing as frail and mousy are unfair because most people would be nervous to even be on tv for such a widely watched event. Even more so for a controversial and consequential one. And especially to tell a really personal story. 1/
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But I do think its fair to question whether the lifetime of trauma described is a normal response to what happened to her. I worry that we're measuring the accused's guilt by the level of trauma an accuser experiences or portrays, and therefore discouraging healing/resilience. 2/
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