Dear not alive during #AnitaHill:

Those hearings terrorized us as we sat transfixed, knowing for a fact we would not be believed

or given a fair chance to tell our stories of rape and harassment

In America or in front of the United States Senate.

#NoBiden
#metoo

#KavanaughConfirmation and his fascist Theocrat cronies Grassley and Orrin Hatch simply following the crucifixion of Anita Hill model of Trotting out dude after dude who told us that Clarence Thomas “wasn’t” a porn addicted rapist. #longDongSilver

During the Anita Hill hearings a sharp line emerged between women who had been raped and harassed

and those who hadn’t yet reconciled and named their experiences.

Women in denial called Anita a bitch.

The rest of us wore buttons

because her story was our story.

Pre-Anita it wasn’t fashionable to watch Senate confirmation hearings. Because Supreme Court Clarence Thomas’s inappropriate sexual habits were/are so disgusting everyone tuned in. Getting a chance to be one of Thomases “he didn’t rape me” defenders was a hot ticket.

"He spoke about such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described "his own sexual prowess" and the details of his anatomy.-Anita Hill
1991
not believed

Republican

Senator Orrin Hatch still alive and in power 🤮🤮🤮defending #KavanaughConfirmation

said in 1991 that "Anita Hill was lying and working in tandem with 'slick lawyers' and interest groups bent on destroying Thomas' chances to join the court.”

@gop always been trash

Racist Republicans pretended to be “not racist” and on the side of Clarence Thomas because defending rapists and restricting abortion will make a white supremacist set aside race in singular instances.

Racist Republicans were so hep on having “a conservative black person” that they lied abou clear evidence and every obvious sign that Clarence Thomas was unfit for the court and so he remains creepily silent and unfit to this day.
The house negro @gop built.

Just happened to have a list ready in case that rape comes up.