Listen to Christina Vardanis talk about why the anger of women can change the world on The Big Story podcast. For three powerful minutes, the women demanded he look them in the eye as they described their own trauma and distilled with painful certainty the message he would be sending with his vote - that women don’t matter. Capitol, two of them stood blocking an elevator that carried Senator Jeff Flake, who had just announced his intention to confirm Kavanaugh’s nomination. They flooded broadcasters and social media with stories of their own harassment and assault, reliving trauma that they, in some cases, had spent decades burying in shame. They took part in coordinated protests across the country by the thousands. Women were erupting in anger - a rage that was both political and personal. Outside the committee chamber, however, the lid had been blown off. To be a credible witness, she had to be measured, deferential, vulnerable, and as one Republican senator put it, “attractive.” The way she carefully composed herself during those excruciating hours of testimony was symbolic of how gendered anger - the expression of it and the right to it - has become. Blasey-Ford could not afford to be angry. senate committee last week, calmly describing her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Christine Blasey-Ford, who testified in front of a U.S.
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