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Ethel C. Fenig "Overcoming her fear of flying for oh, the several hundredth time, overcoming her terror of speaking about her alleged assault supposedly by then-high school student Brett Kavanaugh – "I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified." – Dr. (in psychology) Christine Blasey Ford appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., quiveringly answering their questions as best she could.
"Her terrified best was riddled with several significant gaps. Though she had several weeks to prepare to relate an incident that occurred 36 years ago and supposedly deeply affected her to this day, she couldn't definitively reply to the most fundamental questions about the alleged incident, such as how she arrived at the party, where it supposedly happened, how she got home, or who even paid for her questionable polygraph (lie-detector) test. As Doris O'Brien observed here a few days ago, "Prof. Ford Flunks as a Female Role Model."
"Yes.
"Compare and contrast her behavior in front of the committee with that of the accused, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Although unexpectedly and surprisingly smacked with career-killing, family-, friend-, and colleague-killing charges a week and a half ago, Kavanaugh refused to wallow in victimhood, as Ford has. He gathered his evidence and prepared to answer questions from the committee. Speaking passionately and eloquently in his own defense, displaying emotion when mentioning his ten-year-old daughter's prayers for Ford's well-being, Kavanaugh replied forcefully and factually.
"Granted, testifying and speaking before adults is essential for lawyers and judges, so Kavanaugh presumably benefited from years of experience. However, Ford is a professor and should also be accustomed to public speaking. And she was the accuser, he the surprised accused. But, but, but...this indicates that Kavanaugh is an example of toxic masculinity, especially the malevolent type prevalent at the elite school that Kavanaugh attended so he would be confident, while females at elite schools such as Ford's alma mater must endure the toxicity, according to some.
"Uh, no! The sex-neutral conclusion in this instance is that Judge Kavanaugh passes with honors as an adult role model. Ford flunks."
Blasey Ford’s Speech Pattern Conveys Vulnerability "And then the speech pattern. It’s an odd speech pattern for an accomplished woman. I’m not denying that it could be legit. But it’s a speech pattern that garners sympathy. You can’t say that out loud like I just did, but I’m known for saying things you can’t say. And again, it’s the up-speak or the up-talker. There’s a pattern. There are patterns of speech, and they have been clinically analyzed and categorized and named, and she comes off as an up-talker, ends sentences with an upward inflection, which is how young girls — young teenage girls — come off."
"It makes the speaker sound uber-nice and harmless, non-aggressive, sensitive, vulnerable and so forth, like there’s not a mean bone in their body. She even appears uncertain… Her lawyers are turning pages for her. Her lawyers are covering the mic and conferring with her as to what to say and what the correct answer is. Which is fine, which is why they’re there. She has got four of them there. You can see two of them.
"One of them is the Democrat activist, [Debra] Katz. The other one’s Michael Bromwich, who tried to take Apple for as much as he could in the antitrust case involving iBooks. That’s another story unrelated to this, other than who that guy is. She also admitted that she’s been in the East for a long time. Remember we were told that she’s afraid of flying? But she has been in Delaware and New Hampshire in August for her vacation and so forth." Rush Limbaugh
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