Throughout their riveting, nationally televised testimony on Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh served as Exhibits A and B for a tutorial on gender roles and stereotypes. “When men express strong emotions, we infer that they must be facing extreme situations.”However, Chance was unsure that Kavanaugh’s anger was effective in this case. “If we value the ability to separate emotion from facts, then Ford has behaved more judge-like than Kavanaugh has. “Judge Kavanaugh tearing up when mentioning his daughter conveyed a man who was feeling sorry for himself,” Cunningham said. He embodied the anger so many sexual assault victims fear; the anger that keeps so many of us from coming forward.”

Source: thestar September 28, 2018 01:18 UTC