We’ll totally respect you but you’re lying

Lindsey Graham is quite clear about his determination to ignore anything Christine Blasey Ford says in her testimony to Congress in a few days.

“You can’t bring it in a criminal court, you would never sue civilly, you couldn’t even get a warrant,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace. “What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy’s life based on an accusation? I don’t know when it happened, I don’t know where it happened, and everybody named in regard to being there said it didn’t happen.”

Ruin his life? He’s a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. How is that ruin?

But more to the point, what about her life? Why is it always so easy for these guys to ignore her life? Why do they have no shame, still, about treating women as not real people, expendable, side issues, sluts who like to cause trouble for men for absolutely no reason apart from a tiny attempted rape a long time ago?

“Unless there’s something more, no I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this,” Graham said. “But she should come forward, she should have her say, she will be respectfully treated.”

Announcing in advance that you’ll ignore her no matter what she says is not treating her respectfully. It assumes she’s lying, and it boasts of wasting her time and effort and money and peace of mind, and it tells the world that the man matters while the woman does not, even though he (allegedly) assaulted her and not the other way around.

Updating to add some tweets commenting on this artless admission:

https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1043885170028412936/video/1

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