The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

These are scary times for young men in America, so sez the Commander-in-Chief after accusations arose on his nominee for the Big Bench for sexual malfeasance in high school and college. If anyone would know, it would be the Big Bopper, a man who never grew beyond the sexual assaults of his youth. Or his middle age. And probably hasn’t yet. But for America’s young men, let us be afraid for them.

Well, okay, I’m not gonna lose sleep worrying. Boys will be boys isn’t going to cut it and if some of my testosterone-overdosed buddies think those indiscretions of their drunken youth justify giving poor Brett Kavanaugh a pass, they need to rethink things. I remember a couple of lab techs I used to work with in my prestigious career as a graveyard orderly at a nearby hospital who’d been warned to leave the nurses alone. They thought it was all a hoot, what harm could it possibly do? This was thirty years before the #MeTooMovement and their women colleagues were fair game as far as they were concerned. I tried talking to them about this attitude after witnessing some shenanigans and all I got was amused smirking. Today they’d be fired, pack up, boys and hit the pavement.

I wonder how many of us males are squirming in our BVD’s watching Kavanaugh raging against the injustice of being pilloried for crimes 3 decades ago. When he was intoxicated, no less. How many feel sympathy because they can imagine themselves in his seat, pants on fire. Sure he’s gotta lie. He sure can’t admit to being a blackout drunk. He sure can’t claim it was all a joke grinding away on that woman with his buddy egging him on. He sure doesn’t think it’s fair to have this adolescent frivolity brought up now that he’s a middle aged judge. And how many of us guys take his side because, well, there but for the grace of God and the statute of limitations go they. A lot, I’m betting.

What I’m really hoping is that a lot of that squirming is out of belated guilt. Maybe Kavanaugh is a mirror now and Dr. Ford’s anguish could be someone they know. Could be that they’re learning a few hard lessons in contrition. But I suspect most are going to side with the Judge. If we can overlook his past, maybe we can let our sleeping dogs lie too. Me, I think Trump, as always, has it backwards. These are scary times for young women in America. Same as they’ve ever been, same as they’ve ever been.

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