Like so many Americans who witnessed Christine Blasey Ford give testimony of her abuse, I found myself mesmerized and triggered by the proceedings. I was horrified at the way that the highest function of advice and consent has degenerated into a self-serving spectacle of tyrannical power and gang-rape mentality, determined to confirm an alleged sexual offender, a probable perjurer, maybe an alcoholic and certainly an extreme ideologue, to the highest court in the land. I became ...
Weinstein the Monster
I saw Frontlinelast night on PBS: Weinstein, the abuser; Weinstein, the rapist; Weinstein, the terrorist; Weinstein, the monster. I wondered, what made him a monster? Was he born that way, predatory I mean, or was he made that way or was it a bit of both. And how did he run wild for so long? Could it be that what made Weinstein the monster is what made Trump the monster, Hitler the monster, Stalin the monster? Is there a place in us where the shame, helplessness and rage that ...