Hopefully, the cooked controversy over Brett Kavanaugh will prove to be a watershed moment in the history of our country generally, and that of the so-called “Me Too” movement, specifically. The national discourse—or, perhaps more accurately, the cluster of talking points and soundbites—to have arisen from this disgrace of a spectacle has reinforced the conspicuous and conspicuously painful absence from it of critical thought. First, and most fundamentally, the world has gotten the opportunity to see the flagrant contradiction at the very core of “feminism.” Feminists—who from this point onward we will call, simply, “Feminist Woman”—have been insisting for decades … Continue reading The Kavanaugh Show Trial