like every 27 years, the last time being the anita hill hearing. it stood out to me that the way that the accuser, dr. ford, managed to be i think successful and credible over time during her testimony was by being polite, by being earnest, by being deferential, by being mild mannered. on the other side of the spectrum, brett kavanaugh, given the circumstances we live in today, seemed to have done himself a favor with respect to the person in the white house and respect to republican senators by being the exact opposite, by being belligerent, by being loud, by being emotional and combat ant with the senators. what strikes me is what does it say about our expectations of how men and women should differently comport themselves when they're coming forward to a body that's supposed to be the world's most deliberative body, a sub set of the united states senate. the thing that probably most struck me given the hindsight of what happened with jeff flake is the vociferousness with which all sorts of people said it is outrageous to demand several