'Let women tell their stories'

The controversy surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the US Supreme Court has shone a spotlight on why sexual harassment victims often don’t come forward, says Bill Fletcher

THE DEBATES that have unfolded in connection with the campaign to appoint Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court increasingly centered on charges of alleged sexual assault by him against Dr Christine Blasey Ford.

The attacks on Dr Ford came to represent everything that is so blatantly misogynistic about current US society.

The political right pulled out all of the stops to demean her character. One of the critical ‘arrows’ that was fired is one that went like this: why didn’t she come forward sooner?

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