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    The Kavanaugh and Ford hearings are a moment of truth for #Me Too | Rebecca Solnit

    The hearings will be a test of whether we’re still mired in the bad old days or moving forward towards a more equal society
    by Rebecca Solnit Sep 27, 2018 5 minutes
    ‘The bad old days are today. But they were worse then. Kavanaugh is a test of whether we’re still mired in them or moving forward.’ Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

    The last several years have been, for those who have cared to learn, a brutal education in how pervasive rape and violence against women is. We saw how the perpetrators are so often believed, the victims blamed and discredited, and how various powers – employers and institutions, universities, media, law enforcement – have protected perpetrators, especially high-status perpetrators and allowed their abuses to continue. Bringing this system to light has changed it – but not enough.

    The hearings about whether Brett Kavanaugh is fit to be a US supreme court justice feel like the finale of this education: the test. Will what we have learned matter? Or will a Republican party that has, with minor exceptions, made itself one with rape culture, prevail?

    When the happened 27 years ago, we were as a

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