I didn't know this week would have this effect on me. Can anyone relate?

[Squinch]

9. This is perfectly stated. I have been feeling as if I am carrying rocks around

in my chest.

I keep going back to the devastation of learning that men who I thought were friends had engaged in one of those disgusting "trains" on an unconscious woman in my Jesuit college. Too close, too close. And at this remove, forty years later, I still feel like throwing up when I think about this incident. But I was only someone who knew it happened. I was only someone who could think, "There but for the grace of God go I." And like you, I was only someone who went through the "run of the mill" traumas that are just part of growing up female in America. The rape threats, the need by random men to debase me, to make themselves feel worthy by making me feel frightened or demeaned or insignificant.

I CANNOT imagine what those women who were direct victims of the kind of behavior Kavanaugh perpetrated - this kind of rampant behavior - are feeling this week. I wish they could know how much I want to bolster them, support them, let them know what amazing people they are to have survived such a thing.

I also just HATE these entitled pasty evil assholes who are trying to take our dignity and who are trying to ruin our country. I will NEVER forgive this. I will NEVER forget this.