watched on youtube) https://tinyurl.com/y8r2hlqm
He challenged her on her facts, and actually (thereby) adds fuel to her fire, when he should have targeted her emotional manipulation. Apart from managing to escape (@5:50mins) through a locked door (@4:05mins), her complaining about a teenage romp with a couple of drunken louts at a pool party (the one-piece bathing suit under the clothes - though she couldn't remember a venue - possibly because there were many at the time in her circle) who were a year or so older than her and one of whom was drunk enough to fall off the bed (which for me added a light touch to what sounded more like a comic romp than anything else) and classifying it as "sexual assault /violence", is an affront to women who have to live with it every day of their lives.
Well, true or not, if it goes down she has to be ticketed as someone who knows exactly how to pull the emotional strings of others. I noticed that throughout the narrative there was no attempt at all to collect herself once the bedroom scene was told. If the appropriate response to the memory of an event some thirty-odd years ago is more serious than just dinner-table bemusement, then the woman is maybe getting confused with other more serious (and hidden /forgotten /projected /unresolved) issues. What sort of paragons of virtue do people want to represent them to sit in judgement of their peers anyway (her Central Point in speaking out, by the way - not the assault itself, and somewhat cleverly displaced in the narrative) (and very much a questionable motive, especially for a psychologist). You would have thought she would have been able to demarcate the two a bit better, given the global venue. It's not the woman who's screwed up in my opinion, it's all those who are buying it.
And therein may lie the next big subterrannean story to come out of the woodwork as all the witches in the forest congregate under the full moon and lather themselves with all sorts of 'men' issues, .. though it has to be said (since we're saying), that men have much to answer for in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost when it comes to all sorts of things - like not opening their mail, .. or taking the bin out when they should ('coz nobody else will), .. or mansplaining, .. or .. ..
In the world of back then 'Chinatown', was a different place.
Same time, same place (Chinatown) :=: I Watched it last night. Very strange the way that things conspire to punctuate life with meaning. Here's Jack getting a few clues and reflecting on teenage years. The waitress by the way *does* respond with appropriate indignation - but we do wonder what she might have to say in fond reflection thirty-five years later. [Film Chinatown, director Roman Polanski with :- Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunnaway, a codger, .. and an elderly waitress copping a complimentary feel.]
By extension of this 'vignette' on political life however, and what is *truly* disturbing, is the insidious and pervasive fashionable adoption of vocal fry, up-speak (/up-squeak, /up-squeal) as a vocal badge of societal 'connectedness', particularly by women . It has deliberate infantile appeal that subverts even further the transition from adolescence to adulthood (and responsibility) that seems to have stuttered to a halt at a time when ínstitutional 'bad behaviour' is rife. There is a lack of sense-of-proportion in many things that reflect an inversion of common sense, and that is hidden in the words used, e.g., "political correctness" - a semantic displacement for deliberately confusing the relationship of the individual to the group in order to exert control. Reversal of the world to the self (rather than the self to the world) (which former defines the psychopath) is a balance that seems currently to be very seriously out of kilter, greatly helped by Social Media and 'Fake' News (remembering that the colours flying from the ship today are, more than ever, no guarantee of authenticity or veracity.)
"We live in interesting times .."
[Added 20181011]
Christine Blasey Ford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFL6k5yOAFM
Jordan Peterson on Free speech and the right to offend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pERGAaKHw
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