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Boys will be boys? As Kavanaugh debate rages, teens are saying some adults still don’t get it
“I had a situation like this happen to me,” O’Connor told her 16-year-old daughter, Brynn, as they sat together in their Bethesda kitchen this week. She had also been a student at an all-girls prep school in the 80s when she had been at a party picking up her belongings and the door unexpectedly locked behind her.
“I didn’t think it was a crime,” Cheryl O’Connor said. “We weren’t taught that.”
But she and other teens wish the adults commenting on Kavanaugh and Ford would take the problem as seriously as they do.
“Excusing the behavior of Brett Kavanaugh is going to teach young boys that they can get away with things. Excusing this behavior just says that they can still be successful.”
“Maybe he didn’t mean it and maybe he was a kid,” Anjali said of Kavanaugh. “But saying it’s okay means some other girl is going to be sexually assaulted in a basement because that’s okay as long as he turns out to be a successful adult. “
“We are fifteen year old girls,” the letter from Charlotte, Layla and Jessica was titled. “We are with you, Christine Blasey Ford, PhD.”
“I think every teenager goes through a phase,” Beverly said, but there’s a major difference “between getting drunk and partying and sexually assaulting a woman.”
“If he had been in a drunken accident and left someone crippled,” she added, “he would have to take responsibility for his actions. Why is this any different?”
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A boy being a boy.
He's just having "fun".
He'll grow out of it.
What you do as a kid doesn't count.
No matter the bad behavior, it seems Republicans always have an excuse.
Whether it's Trump assaulting women
or
the Republican's tax cuts for billionaires
or
because he was black while wearing a "hoodie"
or
boys will be boys
or
she dressed like she wanted it.
Republicans ALWAYS have an excuse. Remember when they used to be pretend to be the moral party? The party of God? Those days are gone. They don't even try to pretend to have morals anymore.
Cheat as much as you want, it you win, it's worth it.
Clean air and clean water costs rich people money. Abolish the EPA.
Lie? So what? If you get people to believe it, and you're rich, then it's OK.
And now Republicans are trying to rush through a man with questionable morals and a checkered past into the United State Supreme Court.
There is only one reason why. It's to hurt those they hate.
Republican Party on the Issues
That's why I link to the Republican Party Platform. Anything past page 31 is an eye opener.
With this platform, we the Republican Party reaffirm the principles that unite us in a common purpose
Don't believe me. Believe them. Besides, we are both saying the same things.
“I had a situation like this happen to me,” O’Connor told her 16-year-old daughter, Brynn, as they sat together in their Bethesda kitchen this week. She had also been a student at an all-girls prep school in the 80s when she had been at a party picking up her belongings and the door unexpectedly locked behind her.
“I didn’t think it was a crime,” Cheryl O’Connor said. “We weren’t taught that.”
But she and other teens wish the adults commenting on Kavanaugh and Ford would take the problem as seriously as they do.
“Excusing the behavior of Brett Kavanaugh is going to teach young boys that they can get away with things. Excusing this behavior just says that they can still be successful.”
“Maybe he didn’t mean it and maybe he was a kid,” Anjali said of Kavanaugh. “But saying it’s okay means some other girl is going to be sexually assaulted in a basement because that’s okay as long as he turns out to be a successful adult. “
“We are fifteen year old girls,” the letter from Charlotte, Layla and Jessica was titled. “We are with you, Christine Blasey Ford, PhD.”
“I think every teenager goes through a phase,” Beverly said, but there’s a major difference “between getting drunk and partying and sexually assaulting a woman.”
“If he had been in a drunken accident and left someone crippled,” she added, “he would have to take responsibility for his actions. Why is this any different?”
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A boy being a boy.
He's just having "fun".
He'll grow out of it.
What you do as a kid doesn't count.
No matter the bad behavior, it seems Republicans always have an excuse.
Whether it's Trump assaulting women
or
the Republican's tax cuts for billionaires
or
because he was black while wearing a "hoodie"
or
boys will be boys
or
she dressed like she wanted it.
Republicans ALWAYS have an excuse. Remember when they used to be pretend to be the moral party? The party of God? Those days are gone. They don't even try to pretend to have morals anymore.
Cheat as much as you want, it you win, it's worth it.
Clean air and clean water costs rich people money. Abolish the EPA.
Lie? So what? If you get people to believe it, and you're rich, then it's OK.
And now Republicans are trying to rush through a man with questionable morals and a checkered past into the United State Supreme Court.
There is only one reason why. It's to hurt those they hate.
Republican Party on the Issues
- Constitutionally define marriage as one man & one woman.
- 2005: Southern Strategy was wrong; move to Hispanic Strategy.
- Marriage is legal union of one man and one woman.
- Homosexuality is incompatible with military service.
- States should not recognize gay marriage from other states.
- Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage.
- Strong support for traditional definition of marriage.
- Let Boy Scouts exercise free speech (ok to ban gays).
- Women exempt from combat; “candid analysis” of military gays.
That's why I link to the Republican Party Platform. Anything past page 31 is an eye opener.
With this platform, we the Republican Party reaffirm the principles that unite us in a common purpose
Don't believe me. Believe them. Besides, we are both saying the same things.
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