:dubious: Are you trying to suggest that “it simply never occurred to [you] that anything morally wrong was going on” during those incidents?
Because that’s what you’re claiming here about sexual assault: that it was brushed off as no big deal because “it was just the way life was”, and its perpetrators were thought of “either as an asshole or merely as someone who got carried away”, but the victims “wouldn’t think some great moral outrage had occurred”.
I’m guessing, though, that you would argue that the criminals who assaulted or threatened you were in fact doing something morally wrong.
Why is it always “hate” with you people? Disapproval does not equal hate. Nor does criticism.
But I digress.
You are conflating my comments about shame over the attempted rape with shame over juvenile misbehavior.
Is it really your position that the shame she carried all those years, keeping it all inside as she finished high school, wearing her white dress at graduation and keeping it all inside, was due to her shame at having attended an underage drinking party?
I’ve been following the Kavanaugh fiasco like a hawk and damn, I don’t have much to say beyond that confirming him is going to do so goddamn much to delegitimize the Court and make the case for Court-packing that much easier.
Maybe we’ll all be better off in some weird way because SCOTUS is such a miserable, terrible institution already.
I read his post a few times before ultimately declining to respond, but yes, I believe that is his point. As long as a person’s behavior doesn’t cause lifelong trauma, that person is fit for the supreme court.
I defy you to read his post and come to any other conclusion.
At a guess, based on what you’ve posted in this thread: Is it because you think the criminal behavior of your attackers was morally wrong but don’t think teenage boys sexually assaulting teenage girls is morally wrong?
Oh, I have several ideas, but rather than risk besmirching your character (moreso than you have already done yourself, anyway), I’ll let you explain your reasoning.