Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Hearings

I could have made more time to watch, but I didn’t. And it’s hard for me to envision many African American women watching Ketanji Brown Jackson deal with what so many of them have already been dealing with in their own lives.

Women, in general, know the trauma that hyper-masculinity brings and leaves. An absurdly high percentage of women deal with some kind of assault in their lifetime. Masculine toxicity is in the water. Knowing this, one might think that all women would resoundingly support Judge Jackson. 

Why haven’t they?

Many non-Black women are enraged over Jackson’s treatment by men less qualified than herself for the legal field. Then there are the other women.

I always ask myself, “Do these men have wives and daughters?” Ted Cruz et al., what are you doing to your family?

Women who do not openly identify with Jackson are either 1. afraid, or 2. So dependent, either financially or emotionally, on their partners, silence seems to be the least costly choice. In my view, these women are as dangerous as their spouses are to the well-being of the rest of us. I have found more resonance among white queer women than those whose lives are intimately institutionalized by a man.