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In reply to the discussion: My wife said something about Kavanaugh that I can't stop thinking about. [View all]Texin
(2,596 posts)54. Your wife is 100% correct.
And the thing is, one doesn't have go back to the annals of high school to recall men just like him. About ten years ago I worked with a couple of young men, in their thirties, who were the sons of high profile and affluent men. I don't know if these guys ever initiated or participated in the type of sexual assaults that Kavanaugh and his running buddies did with drunken bravado back in the day. But the one thing I remember about those guys defines every one of that kind of young man: arrogance and an unfettered sense of entitlement.
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My wife said something about Kavanaugh that I can't stop thinking about. [View all]
TomSlick
Oct 2018
OP
No, the point was that in high school those were the kids who made fun of
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2018
#62
Especially if we went to high school anywhere. Entitled party boys are everywhere. n/t
pnwmom
Oct 2018
#6
What a coincidence you should post this. Today I overheard a telephone conversation
Vinca
Oct 2018
#13
I have been around quite a few. Luckily, I'm an athlete so they ended up flat on their asses mostly.
kerry-is-my-prez
Oct 2018
#17
I was lucky. I didn't really meet a Brett Kavanaugh type until I got into the work world
smirkymonkey
Oct 2018
#18
I've never been sexually assaulted but I knew tons of Brett Kavanaughs. He's only a bit older
Neema
Oct 2018
#37
I knew many like Kavanaugh, and they all ended up doing pretty good. Got lots of dates, too.
Midnight Writer
Oct 2018
#41
Hold on there. Weren't you the one who was insisting that we should be compassionate toward
Squinch
Oct 2018
#57
I attended a Catholic boys high school and an Ivy League university
Fortinbras Armstrong
Oct 2018
#65