From Kavanaugh to Carroll, a straight line of incredulity
by Kaylee McGhee
| June 21, 2019 07:21 PM
It’s the sharp whistle as you walk by, the unwelcome attention from the man standing too close, the hand placed where it shouldn’t be. It’s the little things that happen every day that make women feel small and the big, traumatic events that reduce us to nothing at all.
Two years after the start of the #MeToo movement, our society continues to wrestle with sexual assault and its consequences. The latest accuser to come forward is E. Jean Carroll, a popular advice columnist for Elle magazine. She has accused President Trump, along with at least five other men at different points of her life, of sexually assaulting her in the late 1990s.
Carroll’s story was confirmed off the record for New York magazine by at least two people she told about the Trump incident contemporaneously. If we keep digging, Carroll says the security cameras at Bergdorf’s 58th Street entrance would confirm her account as well. The White House denies this and says her story is false.
But let's assume (arguendo) that it's true. If Carroll’s story is what she says it is, it confirms what 15 other women have said of Donald Trump: that he doesn’t value or respect women but sees them as objects and tools of his fancy. From what we already know of Trump’s past and the claims out of his own mouth, Carroll’s story isn’t at all surprising.
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