"He Said, She Said" Redux

Poor Anita Hill, and poor us who are old enough to remember. She went through hell back in 1991 when she worked for Justice Clarence Thomas, and so did we. Anita allegedly suffered the horror of hearing him utter the words "pubic hair" in her presence. And supposedly he boasted about his large penis and that he gave women pleasure with it. As if all that were not bad enough, she worried he might fire her, which is odd because you'd think she would have quit right after the penis comment.

A televised Senate hearing starring Hill and Thomas transfixed the gossip-hungry public for days. I endured a lot of it with my old ex-friend Carol, a hardened lefty. She lapped it all up and believed Thomas should be tossed aside like trash, while I did a lot of eye-rolling. Meanwhile our two little boys played together in the backyard.

Now all these years later, another Democratic woman is accusing another Republican Supreme Court nominee of bad behavior exhibited back when he was still a boy, which he flatly denies ever happened. We are all poised on the precipice of another televised hearing of "He Said, She Said." Sources say the woman came forward with her story after 35 years because it was "her civic duty." I'm wondering what ills she fears Justice Kavanaugh might rain down on the public stemming from his alleged drunken groping of her at a party when they were both in their teens, and are they worse than the damage she is inflicting on us all?