# Misogyny, victim-blaming, and the board culture (yet again) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 15, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-victim-blaming-and-the-board-culture-yet-again/843504 "2019-11-15T19:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-victim-blaming-and-the-board-culture-yet-again/843504/4 "2019-11-15T20:03:46Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > PLEASE say this is not about HD again??? Of course it is. I’ll reproduce the entire exchange here so that people have it at in front of them when deciding how “denigrating” towards women they think my comment was: > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4471): > > Exposing someone to death threats because you think it might help your side in a political squabble is a pretty shitty thing to do. Can we agree on that? > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4474): > > Probably not. Dr. Blasey Ford and her allies exposed Justice Kavanaugh’s family to death threats because they thought it might help their side in a political squabble. I don’t recall many Democrats saying that was “a pretty shitty thing to do”, so the complaint now rings hollow to me. Sorry. > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4475): > > You’re seriously putting Kavanaugh in the shoes of being a whisteblower? Man, have you got that backwards. > > ETA: Plus, accusing Ford herself of responsibility for making death threats – what the fucking fuck news are you reading… > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4478): > > Nope, I’m putting him (and his family) in the shoes of people who were exposed to death threats because dems thought it might help their side in a political squabble. > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4479): > > Sickening, but still not surprising, unfortunately, to see **HurricaneDitka** denigrate a woman who did nothing more than publicly talk about her experiences as a young girl. > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4482): > > I don’t believe I’m “denigrating” her. I’m simply pointing out that her accusation, which was the central focus of a political squabble, exposed a family to death threats. FWIW, she received death threats too, and I don’t think those were deserved either. > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4483): > > Yeah, that isn’t what happened, but see my comment about questioning your source of news if this is what you take away from the controversy. > > But you don’t care, because Kavanaugh…? > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4486): > > Apples and roller coasters. Kavanaugh was already in the public eye as a SCOTUS nominee. Not that death threats are in any way acceptable, but when you accept a SCOTUS nomination you also accept the visibility. > > The WB never volunteered to be a public figure, and making them\* into one – when Trump has already suggested they be executed as a spy – puts their life in jeopardy. > > (\*No idea of the WB’s gender, and too lazy to rework sentence for proper neutrality.) > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4487): > > A friend of mine saw Kavanaugh at the World Series. He had a large security detail to look after him and his family. Wonder if the U.S. Marshals are looking after Dr. Ford, or this whistleblower? > [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4488): > > You blamed her for death threats for nothing more than talking about her own experiences. That’s misogynistic, rape-enabling, denigrating bullshit. I, obviously, disagree with **iiandyiii** ’s characterization of my post. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-victim-blaming-and-the-board-culture-yet-again/843504)._