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Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasnt prepared for what shed find there.
A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but socialized little. She was raised Catholic and had a sheltered upbringing. In the summers, she worked at Carvel dishing ice cream, commuting in the $500 car shed bought with babysitting earnings.
At Yale, she encountered students from more worldly backgrounds. Many were affluent and had attended elite private high schools. They also had experience with drinking and sexual behavior that Ms. Ramirez who had not intended to be intimate with a man until her wedding night lacked.
During the winter of her freshman year, a drunken dormitory party unsettled her deeply. She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.
To Ms. Ramirez it wasnt funny at all. It was the nadir of her first year, when she often felt insufficiently rich, experienced or savvy to mingle with her more privileged classmates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunday-review/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html#click=https://t.co/k6L6j4Qd1c
Girard442
(6,066 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The more I hear about Brett Kavanaugh, the more I think he should be removed from the bench. The man is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. He is a rapist, a drunk and he lied under oath. He also has an anger management problem.
onetexan
(13,024 posts)Practicing law, much less sit on the country's top court. The ABA should disbar him for lying to Congress, and for his past behavior as uncovered to date.
lame54
(35,268 posts)Cartaphelius
(868 posts)should all file law suits.
Then Trump will have some company.
It isn't just that he did these horrendous things.
It is because he lied to the Congress, the citizens that put themselves in harms way and to
the rest of the entire world.