10-03-2018, 01:06 AM
(10-02-2018, 11:36 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: While it might come out that Kavanaugh is actually an alcoholic serial-gang-rapist monster, I would like for everyone to go back and read up on the Satanic Ritual Abuse/Daycare Sex Abuse/Satanic Panic of the 1980s if you don't know anything about it. I can't even imagine what that moral panic would have been like if the internet and Twitter existed.
Look up McMartin Preschool and look up Frances and Dan Keller.
"Believer Her", "Believe Survivors", and "Believe Women" sound an awful lot like the "Believe The Children" of the 1980s.
I lived in the LA area during the McMartin preschool case. I was thirteen when the trial started and around sixteen when it ended. I can tell you first hand that the initial reaction was horrified shock and outrage at the horrendous allegations of abuse. It slowly, gradually, morphed into similar feelings about how botched the whole investigation was. I can't even imagine what that family went through during that process. Some good did come of it as questioning of children became much less of a "leading the witness" and it was turned over to professionals in dealing with children, but at what a cost to those involved in this case. While it's not a perfect parallel as we're talking about grown women versus children, the atmosphere is similar, so well spotted. (There's an amazing HBO series on this case if you can find it)
As an aside, it's now being reported that an ex-boyfriend of Ford is contradicting many of her claims. No way of knowing if this is credible, but what a devastating revelation it would be.
