“When Women Charge Rape, We Must Believe”
That was the refrain we heard when Christine Blasey Ford accused then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — now an associate justice — of attempted rape.
But must we believe Ford, given that she can’t remember how she landed at the party in 1982 where, she says, Kavanaugh pinned her down? Or how she got home? Or given that this memory only surfaced in therapy in 2012, coincident with Kavanaugh’s name landing in the news as a possible pick for the high court if Mitt Romney won the election?
A similar question must be asked about Debbie Ramirez, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself at a party at Yale. Her memory was even more shaky. She was drunk at the party. She asked friends to help her remember.
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