But as German Lopez has written for Vox, there are plenty of issues in our criminal justice system that prevent survivors of sexual violence from reporting. This argument has been a common response to accusations of sexual misconduct over the past year of #MeToo discourse: It couldn’t have happened, because if it had, someone would have said so at the time. And despite this common knowledge no one has talked publicly for three decades, until the day before a crucial Senate hearing. Lots of people knew they were committing gang rape. “Georgetown Prep boys frequently committed gang rape. “Please someone help me with this,” wrote conservative writer David French. “One obvious question about this account: Why would she constantly attend parties where she believed girls were being gang-raped?” asked National Review editor Rich Lowry. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after Swetnick came forward with her story. “I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it,” tweeted Sen. The cultural understanding of rape in the 1980s was fundamentally different from how we understand it today
They’re funny - even in movies as sweet and romantic as Sixteen Candles. Some of the most popular comedies of the ’80s are filled with supposedly hilarious sequences that portray what in 2018 would be unambiguously considered date rape.Īs long as everybody involved is acquainted with each other, these movies tend to treat those rapes as harmless hijinks. If a crime happened, this argument presumes, surely everyone involved would have recognized that it was terribly wrong and someone would have spoken up at the time.īut if there’s one thing we can take away from the popular culture of the 1980s, when the alleged events took place, it’s that a sexual assault at that time might not have been immediately clear as what it was, for participants and observers alike. In a statement released by the White House, Kavanaugh (who has denied all three allegations against him) called Swetnick’s statement “ridiculous” and “from the Twilight Zone.” His denial was widely echoed by supporters to whom the idea that such terrible things could happen on a routine basis, and that no one would do anything to stop them or even avoid the parties, seems absurd. In a sworn declaration delivered through her lawyer Michael Avenatti, Julie Swetnick avowed that she witnessed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drug girls at high school house parties where the girls were later “gang raped.” Swetnick further says that Kavanaugh was present at a party where she herself was drugged and raped, although she does not directly say that he participated in her rape. 1.When a third woman accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct this week, Kavanaugh supporters immediately stepped forward with a familiar defense: It couldn’t have happened, because surely if it had, someone would have said something at the time. P.S.: If you are a ticking clock hater, there’s a Facebook group for you called “I HATE hearing a clock tick when I’m trying to sleep”. In the pictures below you’ll find cool clocks made from unexpected materials, decorative wall clocks fit for even the most modern interior and everything in between. We have compiled a list of the unique wall clocks there are, that even the most snobbish time-watcher would find aesthetically pleasing. Skipping forward a thousand years or so more, the clocks have found their ways into everybody’s homes, and now we couldn’t imagine the concept of ‘living without time.’ As with everything that we use in our everyday lives, the aesthetic appearance of things is a desirable bonus, so a cool wall clock is a must.Įnter Bored Panda.
He called it ‘Water Driven Spherical Birds-Eye-View Map of the Heavens.’ Pretty cool, I-Hsing, pretty cool. Anyways, let’s leave the existential questioning behind and skip forward a couple of hundred years to the invention of the first mechanical wall clock in 723 A.D by a Chinese monk and mathematician I-Hsing.
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