Lying about something changes one’s memory of it. I thought about this a few days ago when nearly every story in the news was about rape or alleged sexual assault, including the Bill Cosby sentencing, the US supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault of two women, and the demise of Ian Buruma, editor of the New York Review of Books, after publishing an article by the alleged sex attacker Jian Ghomeshi.
The common factors in these stories were that in each case, the women had taken a long time to come forward – rightly anticipating attack – and the men had embraced various shades of denial. Kavanaugh told the most obviously disprovable lie, notably that he was decent to female students at high school, when his year book entry contained lines designed explicitly to sexually humiliate them.
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