Any recipient of abuse lives with the consequence of their traumatic experience. Each individual manages their own personal experience - dealing with it through whatever means they have available and are capable of.
Those who have not been abused live in a different world. Touched or untouched by the abuse of another, some can relate and others cannot. But never in the exact same way the one abused is forever changed - for better or worse.
One of the most notable qualities of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, leaked to the Washington Post a month before the 2016 Presidential election, was the bizarre, awkward, three-toddlers-in-a-trenchcoat artificiality of Donald Trump’s attempt to impress TV host Billy Bush with an account of his sexual prowess.
Across the world it triggered traumas women have held and buried in their bodies all these years. It brought to light what we all have put in a box and made taboo for so long. It created a tsunami of emotion that reverberated in us all.
We were again reminded of the tape this week as we witnessed embattled Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh's bizarre, awkward, and artificial attempts at claiming innocence with extreme fallacy.
In high schools, in colleges, at law schools, and in the halls of Washington, men like Brett Kavanaugh perform for one another and ascend to positions of power.
This entitled impunity is a disgusting insult to us all. No one is safe in their trust. We need to end their power and influence.
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