"I’ve been saying this for the last thirty years now. I’m still not at the point where I can tell every person who has been violated that they should step forward into a system. I can’t tell them that. I can help prepare them if they decide to do that, I can help them make the decision about whether to do that. But I can’t just tell people to come forward, knowing what I know about the potential consequences....
...So I really do reject this idea that things will change if more people will come forward, if more women would just step up. My feeling is that more things will change if we provide systems and processes so that people can come forward."
--Professor Anita Hill
Just thinking about how Prof. Anita Hill and Dr Christine Blasey Ford are goddamn heroes.
"Today [2018] 40 percent of millennials are parents, and, as parents, many hold neotraditionalist views of gender. Among millennial men without children, 35 percent believe women should 'take care of the home and children,' a nine-point increase above GenXers and a fourteen-point jump above men older than forty-five.
"...It should come as no surprise that millennial women report feeling more constrained by gender stereotypes...
...so when Kavanaugh threw his tantrum, support for him on the right went up, because he actually confirmed the way people thought a man should be behaving.
"That behavior, that righteous rage, is really inseparable from the authority and public power that men have traditionally had in this country."