A Nation of Pain: Kavanaugh and #metoo

The Troubadour Podcast

English - September 28, 2018 19:02 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB
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During the Senate hearings Senator Chris Coons used a phrase that I think is correct. After having received numerous messages from female friends who said that they too had been sexually abused, he said it is clear that we are in a "nation of pain."

We are. And like any kind of pain, we should ask what causes it.

Rather than blame individual actors or patriarchal structures, I claim there are other cultural causes. The only way forward is to understand the true causes of our national pain.