She came across as both painfully vulnerable and unfathomably strong, which is to say that she came across as human. It was vital that we could be witness to that. A woman who is among my best friends and roughly fits Blasey’s profile in terms of generation and education sent me a text message: “If you’re middle-aged, she’s you. If you’re a millennial, she’s your mom.” I bet that hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of other Americans who tuned in to Blasey’s testimony felt the same. How she and her husband were propelled into therapy by her aesthetically indefensible desire to have two front doors — multiple exit routes — on their home.

Source: New York Times September 27, 2018 18:25 UTC