Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Does it matter if a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a misogynist?  We shall see.  It did not matter with Clarence Thomas, though half the population is female, because half the power is not female.  It may not matter now.  Just break our hearts yet again.  Set an example for our daughters and granddaughters where they are warned that they have no truth and will never be believed over the voice of a man.  Let us be traumatized and re traumatized.  At barely eighteen, as a freshman at college, I went to a male Coop party.  A man shoved me in a room, pulled me onto the bed, and luckily, though I was five feet tall and 105 pounds, I fought him off, and grabbed the door and fled the room.  In the next room was the party with dozens of people, but no one came to my aid, and I left quickly and ran all the way back to my dorm.  I now think this room was for the purpose of "getting lucky".  This guy probably began again with another naive girl, and maybe she wasn't so lucky as I was.  I've never forgotten this incident, now over fifty years ago.  I never went to another party on campus.  I never drank more than one beer.  I was now defensive, on the lookout, and my carefree spirit changed.  I blamed myself for years, and why?  Because I wanted to meet people?  To have fun?  I'd never encountered a party in high school where I was in any danger.  I thought the world was good and I could take care of myself.  For decades now I've known better.  There is no safe for women.