Primal Screams & Trigger Exhaustion

Photo of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by United States Senate cameras as posted to www.judiciary.senate.gov. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Photo of Professor Anita Hill by Gage Skidmore.

Now that the hearings are over, the angry white men are waiting for us to go back to sleep. Rage is like a drug — it can fuel you in the short term and help you keep going, but once it’s spent you’re left wrung out like Lindsay Graham’s handkerchief after Kavanaugh’s testimony. The men who have been moved to tears by the pitiful plight of poor Brett Kavanaugh are counting on that fatigue. They’re hoping that we’re going to be…