The movie is from 1988.
You'd think that things would have changed by now, and yet what's being shown this week is that, if you are a woman, it doesn't matter how smart you are. It doesn't matter how hard you worked. It doesn't matter if you had to try to stitch the shreds of your life together in emotional isolation after having your trust shattered for someone else's amusement.
Judge Kavanaugh said, several times, that he worked so hard and did so much to be where he is; so did the women whom he abused. What about them? What about their intelligence? What about their hard work? What made him think that he is worth so much more than they are that what he did to them was acceptable, and that their experience of his behavior is nothing by contrast to the importance of his ambition?
Is that how a Supreme Court Justice thinks? Is that fundamental respect for every person?
