The Loudest Voices Don’t Speak for Me
On Fear and Silence
When I watched Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I felt her desire to be believed, and her fear that she wouldn’t be, as palpably as if it were my own.
It is my own.
I am afraid to tell this story. I’m afraid to put it out into the world and let others judge its seriousness and its veracity.
My 3-year-old son walked around the house this morning referring to his penis as a volcano. That’s a new kind of B.D.E.