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â€" stories that have gone unheard, or unspoken, because they involve women whose
experiences were complicated â€" is incalculable. Why didn’t I report? Because I was
drunk; because I don’t remember perfectly; because I didn’t yell long enough;
because no one would believe me; because everyone would think it was my fault; because
I thought it was my fault; because I had less power. This is what has foregrounded the
fundamental inexpressibility of so much of the full human experience for so many women,
even in this era in which we have so often been told that one year’s worth of stories
about the ubiquity of assault and harassment amounts to an
overcorrection.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body-
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11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout","role":"body","text": "No. We’re nowhere near
correct.","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/A0lvCID-iTcqd-
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10"}],"layout": "bodyContentLayout", "role":"body","text": "But what’s happening is
getting us closer: We’re taking these stories seriously. Yes, in the case of Ramirez,
because it may have an impact on a Supreme Court nomination. But it matters that it was
reported in The New Yorker; it matters that the Washington Post created a special
stand-alone section of its Sunday paper to feature Amber’s story. It matters that,
unless Kavanaugh’s nomination is withdrawn, Ford will testify in front of the
nation.","type":"text"}, {"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/A6IdjNZ80RJiHKmopbuD-
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11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout","role": "body","text": "There may not be a legal or
political outcome that is satisfying: The perpetrators may not face real repercussions.
But part of what #MeToo has always been about â€" despite the obsessive focus on the
consequences faced by men â€" is what happened to the women (and to the men who’ve
spoken out about their own abuse). It’s been about the exposure of their
realities.","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/Ac4BQnImSTTaVuRYM8v
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11"}],"layout": "bodyContentLayout", "role":"body","text": "The telling of the stories,
the raising of the voices, does its own political work and reveals things that we may
have known at some level but have never been able to see so plainly: the connection
between policy â€" the desire to control women’s bodies via restricting and policing
their reproductive autonomy â€" and the personal treatment of individual women. The
connection between a desire for legal or political domination â€" over workers’™
ability to bargain, citizens’™ ability to vote, black people’s ability to walk the
streets without fear of being indiscriminately accosted by the police â€" and the drive
toward personal, physical
domination.","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/AcQZ0Mp-
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11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout","role":"body","text":"Bruenig writes, powerfully, of
Wyatt, “There will always be people nobody believes: people with lesser reputations,
people who struggle with addiction, people without much capital, social or otherwise,
to credit them. And there will always be cases of offenses that are real and true but
hard to prosecute, which means that justice in the world â€" if it’s to exist at all
â€" will have to †arise from some other reckoning than a proper settling of
accounts.†In this vein, Bruenig offered her reporting on Wyatt, with the stated hope
that it would “trouble†readers, in the way that it “still troublesâ€
her.", "type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body-
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11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body","text": "All of these stories are
troubling not just those of us who read them, but our view of power, in part by
exposing its complicated, pervasive abuses. As women insist on wresting the
metaphorical hands from their mouths, and we commit to listening to and examining what
they have to say, this broken world may not get fixed, but it will never be the
same.","type":"text"}],"identifier":"www.thecut.com/_components/article/instances/cjmgm
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