Engagement 2/26/20

Tolentino uses rhetoric by comparing the speeches of Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh and how Ford’s speech was “unfailingly polite and deferential while being interrogated at length about a traumatic experience. She spoke like a woman who had understood since childhood that survival requires anticipating and accepting the displeasure of men” compared to Kavanaugh’s which was “yelled and wept, behaving like a man whose entitlement had never before been challenged, and who believed that male power outweighs women’s personhood as naturally as a boulder outweighs a pearl”. I do believe that this mediates the exigency.