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Kavanaugh’s Confirmation And #MeToo At A Crossroads: Why This Moment Matters
“There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.”
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
The end of my spring semester of my junior year at college, someone I knew was raped twice while she was intoxicated at a party off campus. I was the one who found her when I went to pick her up, discovering her in a state of undress and very visibly upset. Both assailants were men we knew, one in a position of arguable authority in our lives (he was our RA).
I will not go into further details of the incident itself as it isn’t my story to tell (she and I are no longer in touch and no one who knows me still from that period in my life will know who this person is or any of the others involved, so their anonymity is protected here). The day after the assault, she and I and her roommate (who was her childhood best friend) spent several hours in a group therapy session, after which she decided to file charges at the urging of the counselor. But she soon pulled out of the process shortly after reporting the assault to campus police, when some neighbors in our dormitory began to treat her with animosity and outright anger.
