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Anonymous
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This fixation about her not remembering how she got home is nuts. It't totally reasonable that she doesn't remember. I had a similar experience in college (although actual rape occurred) and I don't recall how I got home.
Consider a more pleasant example. I still remember my first kiss. During a slow dance at a dance hosted by 4-H. I still remember the boy's name. We never dated after that. We were never boyfriend-girlfriend. It was just a magical kiss during a slow dance and a perfect first kiss. I don't remember which friends were with me at the dance or how I got home. I don't even remember how old I was or what grade I was in. I think 7th or 8th. You remember moments. Please, consider for yourself some important moment in your adolescence and see how many of the related details you recall. |
Anonymous
I agree. I guess if they had no issue with supporting Trump, who has at least as many temperament/character issues as Kavanaugh, it's not much of a leap to support Lyin Brett for the Supreme Court. |
Anonymous
Lying Bart. |
Anonymous
A 15 yr old was extremely upset and shaken or moody and withdrawn.... stop the presses! |
Anonymous
This is beside the point I was trying to make--that is, that memory is not a frame by frame photographic/video record of every moment of a traumatic/stressful event. That said, my experience wasn't as traumatic as Dr. Blasey's alleged experience, but suffice it to say I was in an uncomfortable situation involving two older boys who I thought might try to force me to have sex with them. I was only briefly pushed down. They decided to kick me out of the car on the way home since I didn't have sex with them. I would have never ever told my parents about this or any other incidents--they are very religious and socially conservative (no sex before marriage, etc.). They would have freaked. To this day I don't think I've told anyone about that incident besides my husband. I definitely told no one else at the time. |
Anonymous
+1 PP certainly wasn't a teen girl in the 80s. |
Anonymous
The details that Christine Ford has "forgotten" are critical to the investigation. And no one has explained why Christine Ford and her BFF who was supposedly at the gathering with her didn't discuss why she left early or how she got home? |
Anonymous
Yeah. This is another one of those stupid talking points that Kavanaugh defenders repeat ad nauseum. Ford was probably just quiet in the car. Whoever was driving, which maybe was whoever drove her there or whoever she would have gotten a ride from absent an assault, was probably listening to music, chatting about nonsense, and, frankly, tipsy. Why would someone remember their transportation to or from a high school event? I went to a lot of memorable events over time for which I couldn't begin to tell you how I got there or how I got home. |
Anonymous
It's not nuts. Read the memo. Ford is saying that the gathering was about seven miles from her house (although she doesn't know whose house it was). She remembers running out of the house without telling anyone, although when questioned she claims she doesn't remember how she got home. Think about it, in the era before cell phones and you're too young to drive, you run out of a house and need to get back home seven miles away. It would have taken considerable effort for her to get a ride back. It's incredibly hard to believe that she would have no memory of it whatsoever. Also she claims that she didn't discuss with her lifelong friend Leland who was supposedly at the house with her, why she left or how she got home. So these two besties are hanging at a house with only 6 people, her friend leaves without telling anyone and somehow manages to find a ride back, but yet they didn't discuss this? |
Anonymous
You are clearly no psychology expert. In a traumatic event, the brain is absorbed in some details (like the face or voice) and is oblivious to irrelevant stuff. This is well-established, and your trying to insist otherwise does not make it so. |
Anonymous
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https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9kfssy/outrage_grows_as_omissions_from_kavanaugh_probe/
Outrage Grows As Omissions From Kavanaugh Probe Become Apparent https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/outrage-grows-as-omissions-from-kavanaugh-probe-become-apparent |
Anonymous
Because to everyone else this was just another Thursday, like the one before it and the one after it. Let's say she runs off, her friend says, "Hey, where'd Christine go?" And Mark or Kav, who have returned to the gathering, say she felt sick or had to go meet her parents or some other excuse (because they're certainly not going to say, "She ran off because we held her down on a bed upstairs and tried to make the lies we tell about doing the Devils Triangle true"). Again, you just don't get it. Maybe she walks back to the club and calls someone for a ride. Maybe she walks to a pay phone somewhere. She wasn't bloody with a torn dress and bruises on her face. Even if she had been unusually quiet, or even crying, as 15 year olds often do, who would remember this so many years later? To everyone else, this was an unremarkable day. She didn't tell anyone when it happened, we know that. Neither did I. That does not mean that it did not happen. |
Anonymous
Perhaps so, but Ford can't even give a name as to who drove her home so as this person could be asked. Ford can't even say that anyone drove her home. |
Anonymous
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What I remember most is being held down. That is what sticks with me. The feeling of helplessness. Like Kavanaugh, he was laughing. He thought it was hilarious.
We were not two kids playing doctor, but I bet he remembers it that way, if he remembers it at all. |
Anonymous
YEP Doesn't remember, but won't lie. Unlike Kavanaugh who may or may not remember, but will lie. |