The Cut article on Kavanaugh, Ramirez, and Ford linking #MeToo to Supreme Court nomination

a€" stories that have gone unheard, or unspoken, because they involve women whose xperiences were complicated 4€" is incalculable. Why didna€™t I report? Because I was drunk; because I dond€™t remember perfectly; because I didnde™t yell long enough; because no one would believe me; becaus veryone would think it was my fault; because I thought it was my fault; because I had less power. This is what has foregrounded the fundamental inexpressibility of so much of the full human experience for so many women, even in this era in which we have so often been told that one yeard€™s worth of stories about the ubiquity of assault and harassment amounts to an overcorrection.","type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 14","inlineTextsStyles":[{"range":{"Léength":31,"start":0}, "textstyle":" anf-ts-— 11"}J,"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role": "body", "text": "No. Wead€™re nowhere near correct.","type™:"text"}, {"additions"™: [{"URL":"https://apple.news/AO1VCID-iTeqd- W KoRVIcPWA", "range": {"length":41,"start":407},"type"™:"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 15","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":448,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"},{"range":{"length":5, "start ":256},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 10"},{"range":{"length":14,"start":210},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 10"}J],"layout"™: "bodyContentLayout", "role": "body", "text": "But whatae™s happening is getting us closer: Wed€™re taking these stories seriously. Yes, in the case of Ramirez, because it may have an impact on a Supreme Court nomination. But it matters that it was reported in The New Yorker; it matters that the Washington Post created a special stand-alone section of its Sunday paper to feature Amberd€™s story. It matters that, unless Kavanaugha這s nomination is withdrawn, Ford will testify in front of the nation.", "type": "text"}, {"additions": [{"URL":"https://apple.news/A6IdjNZ80RJiHKmopbuD- fo", “range”: {"length":6, "start":133},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 16","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":363,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body","text":"There may not be a legal or political outcome that is satisfying: The perpetrators may not face real repercussions. But part of what #MeToo has always been about 4€" despite the obsessive focus on the consequences faced by men 4€" is what happened to the women (and to the men whod€™ve spoken out about their own abuse). Ita€™s been about the exposure of their realities.","type"™:"text"}, {"additions": [{"URL":"https://apple.news/Ac4BQnImSTTaVuRYM8Vv 2BRw", "range": {"length":23,"start":228},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 17","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":646,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body", "text":"The telling of the stories, the raising of the voices, does its own political work and reveals things that we may have known at some level but have never been able to s so plainly: the connection between policy d4€" the desire to control womend€™s bodies via restricting and policing their reproductive autonomy 4€" and the personal treatment of individual women. The connection between a desire for legal or political domination 4€" over workersdae™ ability to bargain, citizensd€™ ability to vote, black peopled€™s ability to walk the streets without fear of being indiscriminately accosted by the police d4€" and the drive toward personal, physical domination.", "type"™:"text"}, {"additions"™: [{"URL":"https://apple.news/AcQZO0Mp- TQOgO4sysZiGbcJQ", "range": {"length":6, "start":8},"type"™:"link"}],"identifier":" anf- body-18", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range"™:{"length":605,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body", "text":"Bruenig writes, powerfully, of Wyatt, d€eThere will always be people nobody believes: people with lesser reputations, people who struggle with addiction, people without much capital, social or otherwise, to credit them. And there will always be cases of offenses that are real and true but hard to prosecute, which means that justice in the world 4€" if itd€™s to exist at all a€" will have to 4€| arise from some other reckoning than a proper settling of accounts.a€ In this vein, Bruenig offered her reporting on Wyatt, with the stated hop that it would a4€etroublea€ readers, in the way that it Aa€estill troublesd€ her.","type":"text"}, {"identifier"™:" anf-body- 19","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":353,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body","text":"All of these stories are troubling not just those of us who read them, but our view of power, in part by exposing its complicated, pervasive abuses. As women insist on wresting the metaphorical hands from their mouths, and we commit to listening to and examining what they have to say, this broken world may not get fixed, but it will never be the same.", "type": "text"}],"identifier":"www.thecut.com/ components/article/instances/cjmgm szeqo00j wly64eqbuwzb", "language": "en", "Layout": {"columns":10,"gutter":20,"margin":85,"w idth":1024}, "metadata": {"canonicalURL":"http://www.thecut.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-sexual- assault-deborah-ramirez-christine-ford. html", "datePublished":"2018-09- 24T19:55:08.1112", "thumbnailImageIdentifier": "ebc23aeb125f2f900ab112b92de36369","transp arentToolbar":false}, "resources": {"492005d4-a642-412e-91le0d 97b82fa75b42": {"URL": "asset: //492005d4-a642-412e-91e0 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028444