So when did it become forbidden to question the veracity of someone's story?

RaceBannon said:

Its only your reputation. Who cares?

georgiaduck said:

creepycoug said:

SFGbob said:

Why is it that we supposedly can't question Ford's story? Everyone keeps talking about how "credible" her story is but when I hear a story where you can't remember the date, or the time or how you got to the party or how you left and where everyone you name as being at the party denies any knowledge of the party the last fucking word I think about is "credible." To me that story sounds like fucking bullshit.

There are holes there, but candidly the only thing that I have focused on is the timing. If it didn't matter all these years, leave it alone.

That said, I can imagine someone being off on some details, or at least not wanting to commit to them in a high stakes setting like this, and still remember the evening's main event. I was at plenty of parties where 'stuff' I'll never forget happened but how I got there, who I went and left with, the precise date and time, etc. are gone to history. I'm not trying to defend her but that part of it doesn't strike me as automatically fishy as it seems to with other people. Like, if I got my ass kicked at a party 36 years ago, I'd remember that and I'd remember who did it, and I'd probably remember where it happened and what caused it. The rest? Date, time, how I got there, how I left, etc.? I can see forgetting that shit.

But she's a PhD and hasn't lived her life in dysfunction from all accounts, so I am suspicious about how "traumatic" it was, or at least how traumatic it continued to be for her throughout her life, and of course the timing. So just like you with Treyvon, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest Kavy was a bit of a self-entitled prick who could become aggressive when sauced (who among us doesn't know a dozen people like that) and could easily be the type of teen-aged boy who might push too far with a co-ed and then wake up the next day and think, "fuck. I hope she doesn't make a big deal out of this."

I just don't care. It would have been chintresting if he'd tried the old American approach of admission, contrition and axing forgiveness. Lord knows the American people tend to forgive those who admit wrong-doing. Hard to say in today's political climate.

I got my ass handed to me when I was in sixth grade right before a baseball practice (coaches hadn't arrived yet). I remember getting there (I walked) and I remember skipping practice to walk home so my mom could take me to the emergency room for the welt on the side of my head. I remember his parents coming over to my house so they could see what their son had done and fork over the money for the emergency room visit. That was 39 years ago. I'm going to venture out there and say it was somewhere close to the trauma Ford says she experienced because this kid who was a nearly a foot taller than me at the time was not stopping.

As a side note- I also remember getting the phone call seven years later that in his freshmen year of college he swallowed a shotgun. Kid was messed up.