Women aren't a monolith – and the white women supporting Kavanaugh prove it

[TomSea]

Women aren't a monolith – and the white women supporting Kavanaugh prove it
White women are as likely to believe Kavanaugh as they are Christine Blasey Ford, polls have found, continuing a long pattern of voting Republican
Lucia Graves
Sat 6 Oct 2018 05.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 6 Oct 2018

It would make sense that the people most likely to believe the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford would be the ones who look like her: middle-aged, white women.

But polls and even a cursory glance at cable news show this not to be the case.

Fox News host Martha MacCallum said that following Ford’s testimony, she kept hearing from moms who “fear due process is dead”. If Brett Kavanaugh is denied a supreme court confirmation over Ford’s sexual assault allegations, these women fear their sons could be subjected to “an unfair precedent” one day.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/06/women-arent-a-monolith-and-the-white-women-supporting-kavanaugh-prove-it

It's interesting that I heard someone say the exact above, that the accusations against Kavanaugh made many women see, their own fathers, sons, brothers could be accused of the same.

[goatprairie]

That should have been evident when the majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Most of the 23 women US Senators are white, and only 5 are voting for Kavanaugh's confirmation.

Not much support there.