Culture Warriors category archive
DARVO 0
Carol A. Lambert notices a classic pattern in Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony about Christine Balsey Ford’s accusations. A snippet; follow the link for more.
Having examined over a thousand relationships, I see the DARVO pattern in my work with women who have controlling partners. In almost every single case of intimate partner abuse—physical, psychological, or emotional abuse—when women attempt to address a partner’s hurtful behavior or abuse, they end up being attacked and ultimately accused of being the abusive one.
Victims and Victimizers 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., shares his revolutionary strategy to avoid accusations of sexual misconduct. A nugget:
“A Token of Their Esteem” 0
Thom’s caller suggests that prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, who the Republicans on the Judiciary Committed used to question Christine Blasey Ford, was a “token hire.”
Methinks the thought is worth a ponder.
Facebook Frolics, “No Irish Need Apply” Dept. 0
Pap and Thom discuss the growing number of suits against Facebook for allowing employment ads that violate anti-discrimination laws.
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Is It a “Hearing” If Nobody Listens? (Updated) 0
Mike Littwin comments on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Kavanaugh (non-)hearing. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Addendum:
Dick Polman is en point in labeling the Republican Party as “the party of misogyny.”
The Entitlement Society 0
Law Professor Deirdre M. Bowen remembers.
Hoist on His Own Petard 0
One of my history professors used to delight in pointing out what he called “the ironies of history.”
Image via Juanita Jean.
Afterthought:
Those ironies are oft bittersweet.
I think the professor was Dr. Bill Shade, under whom I studied the Early Federal Period during my year in graduate school, out of which I dropped, for I realized that I was not cut out to be an academician.* (Hell, when I drove away in my U-Haul heading east back to the Eastern Shore, I did indeed feel a weight lift from my shoulders. It was a metaphor come to life.)
He was a bright spot in that experience
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*”Academic” is an adjective. “Academician” is a noun. It’s called “proper usage.” Live with it.