I ask if women are less tolerant of abusive behavior by men in our current political climate. She says many women at the protest were wearing “WOMEN FOR KAVANAUGH” T-shirts. Sometimes they had signs calling for “Due Process” and “Protect Our Sons.” She tells me that in televised interview after interview women and mothers are saying, “Boys will be boys.” How their sons have morphed into Kavanaugh defies a certain logic but, whatever. Don’t they have daughters? I ask. Don’t they matter? I ask these questions even as I know that what matters is the wealth, power, and access that proximity
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