I attended a private university during the late 70s - early 80s

[AngryOldDem]

39. I graduated from a private university in 1983

This is my first post on DU in a very long time. I’m back because I’m getting sick of the worsening state of this country, as well of those who are having no issue with destroying it for their own twisted agendas.

That said, whenever I see Brett Kavanaugh I am reminded of those boys — not men — who swaggered around campus, thinking the world owed them all deference and honor because of their very existence — the boys who would strut around campus and into classes late, sit in the back and openly mock the professor, brazenly cheat on tests, and provide cover for one another if need be. Of course, they had their posse and made the rest of us who weren’t part of the beautiful people feel like shit. They ruled the roost.

I had a roommate my sophomore year. One night I had a basketball game on TV, and a member of the campus jockocracy appeared. Her reaction was immediate, unexpected, and frightening. All she would say was she was at a party with this guy, and she never wanted to see him or hear his name ever again. I didn’t feel right pressing her for details, and I honored her request.
After all these years, I still think about her and wonder how she’s doing, moreso after Dr. Ford bravely came forth with her story. There is no question that something bad happened at that party, all because of some asshole who thought he had the God-given right to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. And he’s out there somewhere too like Kavanaugh, a success at whatever he’s doing, and totally oblivious to the pain he caused a 19-year-old all these years ago. If he even remembers.

It’s time these Cocks of the Walk be called on their criminal, entitled, misogynist behavior. We owe them nothing. They deserve nothing. They have earned nothing. Kavanaugh will most likely be confirmed, but we can all put him and the rest of his twisted ilk on notice that we are on to them, we know what they were/are like, we will never forget, and that we will always stand with those they abused in all their “youthful indescretions.”