Christine Blasey Ford

The problem is with this book, right, is because it is so poorly structured and because the arguments are so all over the shop, there is not much point in, like... debunking or arguing with rush limbaugh in this matter it is it is designed if you try you get sucked into an argument with a fascist which you will lose because they don't play by the same rules as you and me so like there's no yes there's no point in it but i did want to do is pick out one chapter and sort of talk about it in a bit more detail and i wanted to talk about i alluded to it earlier is the uh is talking about the chapter on anita hill And the reason why is because I think This one shows a lot of the things that are still with us today.

It's stuff like Me Too, men in very powerful positions covering each other's backs, the 2018 confirmation hearings of current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who tried to explain to the world what and who Brett Kavanaugh was, and so that the style and substance of those hearings, the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, were much of a muchness of the same in the early 1990s when the Republicans tried to put current Supreme Court justice and, you know, lunatic Clarence Thomas on the stand.

Mm-hmm.

So if you don't know, and that's fair enough because it was the early 90s, this is about the confirmations hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

So like, you know, it's, not only is he wrong and gross, he's also terribly unfunny and it's just, I don't know, it's all really fucking grim.

Like this, this is all, you know, Yeah.

I think the danger to someone like Rush Limbaugh and the people that he represents or the danger of someone like Christine Blasey Ford that they represent to the conservative movement is a straightforward issue of misogyny.

They will not allow women to tell the truth about their assault by powerful men.

Judge Kavanaugh comes to place.

All of a sudden, Christine Blasey Ford shows up out of fucking nowhere.

35 years ago, he fucking grabbed my, whatever, and you're trying to ruin lives.

But when they have you on video.

Right, right.

So as soon as Kavanaugh's name gets out there, Christine Blasey Ford, who is a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, contacted a tip line at the Washington Post and her congresswoman at the time, Anna Eshoo, who's a California congresswoman, with the report that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a party in 1982 when they were in high school.

She was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17.

Later in July of 2018, she contacted Senator Dianne Feinstein about the accusation.

Like, no one came forward.

And I'm like, I highly doubt that he just, like, straightened up, but maybe...

I think what's more interesting was to watch how people would bend over backwards to try to pin a motive on Christine Blasey Ford for lying about this when she obviously had zero.

Like, this did nothing for her.

And at one point during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court justice hearings...

I watched the incredible courage of Christine Blasey Ford standing up to all these male senators who were grilling her and refusing to believe her.

And I knew instantly that this is going to be one of the integral scenes in the novel.

But instead of it being 2018, it is going to be 1662.

And there is my protagonist, my heroine, Mary Deerfield, standing up to these men in the same way that Christine Blasey Ford stood up to those United States senators.

And I even took some of the senatorial language and some of the language of Donald Trump and incorporated it into the voice of the Boston-based course of assistance, especially when one of them looks down on Mary Deerfield and says, thou art a nasty woman.

Wow.