This powerful analogy is helping men to understand why women are so angry about Brett Kavanaugh (TW)
With the election of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, the world – and, in particular, America – has seen an unprecedented wave of anger and protest about the issues of respect and support for survivors of sexual abuse and assault, which have been brought to the fore by the controversial appointment. Author A.R. Moxon, tweeting as @JuliusGoat, has written a strong metaphorical thread to help more men understand why women have reacted this way.
Understandably, this comes with a trigger warning.
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Hi, guys. Imagine if one day you got kicked in the nuts, really hard, on purpose.
You doubled over. Felt the pain. Nearly passed out. Nearly puked.
Then you got kicked again. And again.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine it happened to you when you were 12.
Imagine it was an 38 year old woman who did it.
Imagine it was your mother’s friend and business partner.— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you told your parents and they didn’t believe you.
Imagine they never mentioned it again.
You learned to keep quiet about it.
You learned to be scared.— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine that later your father explained that women just wanted to kick men in the nuts, so as a boy you had to be careful.
Imagine he had very detailed practical advice on this.
Imagine you started spending your life planning on avoiding being kicked in the nuts.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you became aware that women, including much older women—even elderly women—were always looking at your nuts. Women on the street would follow you. They’d tell you what a nice package you have. They’d tell you you’d be hot if you just showed off your nuts a little more.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you started wearing clothes to hide them. You bought uncomfortable protective gear.
All the posters and advertisements in all the magazines featured men’s crotches, though frequently not their heads.
Women’s feet were frequently featured in prominent juxtaposition.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine most of your friends all told you about getting kicked in the nuts.
Imagine none of them had ever told anybody else.
Imagine all the older girls at school would make jokes about kicking you in the nuts.
Imagine all the laughter. The jokes are all so funny.
Jokes.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you went to church and were told that God made girls to want your body, so you should protect your nuts at all costs.
Imagine the minister said it was your responsibility as a maturing boy not to do anything that would make girls think about kicking you in the nuts.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you found a girlfriend, and you loved each other.
One night, you were fooling around and she kicked you as hard as she could in the nuts, and it all came rushing back.
Imagine she acted like obviously you wanted to be kicked in the nuts,mocked you for getting emotional.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine you told the police, and they asked you what you’d been wearing before she kicked you in the nuts. Asked if you’d had a drink. Asked what you might have been doing before. Had you been naked? Kissing?
You had.
You left.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine there were laws that said that if a wife kicked her husband in the nuts it wasn’t assault.
Imagine you heard about men with ruptured testicles who had to pay for their own forensic reports
Imagine you saw statistics showing only 1% of kickings resulted in conviction.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
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Imagine a girl was caught kicking a boy repeatedly in the nuts while he was passed out drunk.
Imagine the judge let her off, because she was worried about the damage to the girl’s future prospects. She was a star swimmer with a scholarship.
Imagine this happened all the time.
— Julius Ghost👻 (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
