Lust has most to do with it yet there are those who need to feel the rush of power in order to justify their own lives. When we are young men going through puberty the allure of sex is/was extreme to many of us. We often didn't know what to do about that and in the not knowing we often form various responses to it that fall outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior. In other words we don't think as clearly as we need to in some of our thoughts that move to action. A primal instinct overtakes us and we respond in kind. Many of us find the proper civilized way to control our new found urges but some of us don't. Which leads us to what kavanaugh did as a response.
He allowed his primal sexual instinct to dominate his life through drink and collaboration with other weak minded individuals. Instead of stopping himself from acting like a barbarian, he embraced it. Which leads me to say that he was one of those who objectified women instead of seeing them as equals. In his cultish circle of protection, he began to become like the children in the novel, "Lord of the Flies". Yet in his case he was not deserted on some island, he was smack dab in the middle of a WASPian community that likes to hide their illegal and criminal behaviors more than confront them. His upbringing is no excuse for his acts but they do play a role in his deciding that he could get away with treating women as sex objects instead of human beings.
Well as most of Americans know what we do as young nearly adults is akin to defining our lives for the life of it. Yet not so much in the wealthy circles the few advantaged and privileged white males circulate. They, like kavanaugh, can do most anything illegal or criminal and have it disappear from being recorded. But what about the women who were the subjects of his objectifications? Do they just go on about their lives without any scarring from being overpowered and humiliated? Are they just the brunt end of an out of control male fervor and not subject to a just recourse? We have laws for most Americans but it seems that we don't have the same laws for the privileged and advantaged, nor the protections for their abused victims.
He allowed his primal sexual instinct to dominate his life through drink and collaboration with other weak minded individuals. Instead of stopping himself from acting like a barbarian, he embraced it. Which leads me to say that he was one of those who objectified women instead of seeing them as equals. In his cultish circle of protection, he began to become like the children in the novel, "Lord of the Flies". Yet in his case he was not deserted on some island, he was smack dab in the middle of a WASPian community that likes to hide their illegal and criminal behaviors more than confront them. His upbringing is no excuse for his acts but they do play a role in his deciding that he could get away with treating women as sex objects instead of human beings.
Well as most of Americans know what we do as young nearly adults is akin to defining our lives for the life of it. Yet not so much in the wealthy circles the few advantaged and privileged white males circulate. They, like kavanaugh, can do most anything illegal or criminal and have it disappear from being recorded. But what about the women who were the subjects of his objectifications? Do they just go on about their lives without any scarring from being overpowered and humiliated? Are they just the brunt end of an out of control male fervor and not subject to a just recourse? We have laws for most Americans but it seems that we don't have the same laws for the privileged and advantaged, nor the protections for their abused victims.
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