I was in high school in FL in 1988, and this news story of vicious battery & rape by PKA brothers has been seared in my memory, and my experience at #FSU years later (esp reading @BadDebutante in the Flambeau), and now in how I'm taking in #KavanaghHearing.
Rape has remained endemic on college campuses--yet not even #KavanaghHearing yesterday could get past "we all did it" or "have you?" deflections of the alcohol abuse and gender performances demanded of youth that have served to create environments tolerating rape & harassment.
Even setting aside Dr. Ford's allegations, it was appalling that, when set on a national stage, a candidate for life appointment to our nation's supreme arbiter of justice denied & deflected the woman-shaming, male-machismo, blackout-drunk culture of rape-permissiveness.
This is as true of college campuses as it is military bases. And it is long past time to reckon with this toxic mix of alcohol, identity, and gendered violence that has wreaked havoc on women--and targeted men as well.
Thank you @TheMoniBasu for all you did to tell the story of what PKA did to Maria then at FSU--and years later at CNN: cnn.it/2DDaORN It still resonates. Maria hoped her story would help, and it has. But we still need truth & accountability as a nation. #KavanaghHearing
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