In fact, “Believe All Women” does have an asterisk: *It’s never been feminist “boilerplate.” What we are witnessing is another instance of the right decrying what it imagines the American women’s movement to be.
Spend some mind-numbing hours tracking the origins of “Believe All Women” on social media sites and news databases — as I did — and you’ll discover how language, like a virus, can mutate overnight. All of a sudden, yesterday’s quotes suffer the insertion of some foreign DNA that makes them easy to weaponize. In this case, that foreign intrusion is a word: “all.”
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“It’s a very interesting rabbit hole,” Pablo Morales Henry, digital archivist at Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library, which maintains a collection of more than 30 million MeToo-related tweets, told me.
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Type in #BelieveAllWomen for 2017, when the #MeToo movement took off in October, and you get several dozen references, followed in 2018 (the year of the Kavanaugh hearings) by many more. But here’s the thing: I found that the hashtag is, by a wide margin, used mostly by its detractors.
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This is why “Believe All Women” is not an amplification of “Believe Women,” but its negation. As Mr. Morales Henry at the Schlesinger Library told me, after several days of analyzing the use of the two hashtags, “It looks like #BelieveAllWomen, especially recently, is being used in opposition to #BelieveWomen.” Its use spikes on occasions when allegations are made against a liberal politician — often with companion hashtags decrying a double standard.
The double-standard purity test operates in one direction only. Conservatives are unfazed by their own brazen hypocrisies; that’s not the game they’re playing. Kellyanne Conway claiming it’s “pro-woman” to “believe all women,” before walking back into that White House? Conservatives have been oddly immunized by their shamelessness.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh, come on.
"She said she initially thought her friend's camera bag brushed against her, but quickly realized it was actually Trump's hand."
Not credible at all.
She is claiming he grabbed her buttocks. But, initially thought it was a camera bag?
Camera bags don't grab.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/12/president-trump-insists-he-hasnt-met-sexual-misconduct-accusers-melinda-mcgillivray-recounts-her-sto/943761001/
She is an opportunist.
You’re a broken record. You’ve literally said that for every single woman on this thread.![]()
Anonymous wrote:Oh, come on.
"She said she initially thought her friend's camera bag brushed against her, but quickly realized it was actually Trump's hand."
Not credible at all.
She is claiming he grabbed her buttocks. But, initially thought it was a camera bag?
Camera bags don't grab.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/12/president-trump-insists-he-hasnt-met-sexual-misconduct-accusers-melinda-mcgillivray-recounts-her-sto/943761001/
She is an opportunist.
Anonymous wrote:The latest woman’s accusation to be disproven is from Mindy McGillivray. She claimed that she “felt a grab, a little nudge” standing in front of Donald Trump at a Ray Charles concert on January 24, 2003. Her associate who was standing next to her claimed he “did not witness the alleged groping”. Somehow a grab and a nudge turned into a grope — when asked to explain the incident 13 years later she said, “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab. It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.’’
Mindy explained that one of the reasons she didn’t say anything at the time was the fact that Trump was engaged to Melania at the time — but the reality is they didn’t get engaged to the next year. More damning is the fact that the event never took place — Trump saw Ray Charles three weeks before the date Mindy claimed the “grope” occured.
https://medium.com/les-deplorables/another-woman-destroyed-so-hillary-clinton-can-become-president-22206afc4f9c
But her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ″Donald just grabbed my ass!″
Asked about the possibility that what she felt was Trump or someone accidentally bumping into her, McGillivray said no. “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab,″ she said. “It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.″
The latest woman’s accusation to be disproven is from Mindy McGillivray. She claimed that she “felt a grab, a little nudge” standing in front of Donald Trump at a Ray Charles concert on January 24, 2003. Her associate who was standing next to her claimed he “did not witness the alleged groping”. Somehow a grab and a nudge turned into a grope — when asked to explain the incident 13 years later she said, “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab. It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.’’
Mindy explained that one of the reasons she didn’t say anything at the time was the fact that Trump was engaged to Melania at the time — but the reality is they didn’t get engaged to the next year. More damning is the fact that the event never took place — Trump saw Ray Charles three weeks before the date Mindy claimed the “grope” occured.
Anonymous wrote:Oh, come on.
"She said she initially thought her friend's camera bag brushed against her, but quickly realized it was actually Trump's hand."
Not credible at all.
She is claiming he grabbed her buttocks. But, initially thought it was a camera bag?
Camera bags don't grab.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/12/president-trump-insists-he-hasnt-met-sexual-misconduct-accusers-melinda-mcgillivray-recounts-her-sto/943761001/
She is an opportunist.