E. Jean Carroll’s courage compelled me to
read her memoir. I borrowed Not My Type from the library.
It is
not the kind of book I like to read but the fact that she risked her life
motivated me to pick it for My Writing Life: Awareness, Reflection,
Inspiration.
Not
My Type: One Woman vs a President reveals what she went through when she came forward to expose
the truth: the revelations of the sexual assault and the perpetrator. She
shares the details of her traumatic experience and the context of the
situation.
Going to court to stand up for justice meant
risking her own life.
She received all kinds of threats. The cultists threatened to rape and
murder her. She received thousands of hateful, misogynistic messages.
This should not come as a surprise considering that these people constantly
make excuses for the behaviors of a convicted sexual abuser who also happened
to be the closest friend of a sex trafficker for fifteen years, and who
recently moved a convicted child sex trafficker to a more comfortable prison. In the
past he even bragged about sexually assaulting women, and when he was asked
about it, he said that was “locker-room talk.”
I can’t
believe I am writing this but let’s say it: sexual abuse is a criminal act.
It does not matter if the perpetrator is white, black or orange. It does not
matter whether the perpetrator is rich or poor. It does not matter whether the
perpetrator is Republican or Democrat. Sexual abuse is a violation.
My
question is this: why is a convicted sexual abuser allowed to become
president in the United States of America? Is misogyny so deeply ingrained
in American society that this is acceptable in the minds of seventy-seven
million voters and ninety million people who did not even bother to vote?
Seventy-seven
million people voted for a sexual abuser because they chose not to believe
women, while they preferred to believe a man with a history of lying
consistently. They did not even bother to pay attention to the facts in this specific
case because their misogyny blinded them, so let’s review some of those facts here.
Fact number one: the sexual abuser stated that
he had never met E. Jean Carroll. This was proven to be a lie.
Fact number two: the sexual abuser stated that
he never shopped at Bergdorf Goodman. This turned out to be a lie.
Fact number three: he stated that “E. Jean
Carroll was not his type.” This is another lie. The sexual abuser mistook E.
Jean Carroll for his own wife.
I will let you find more evidence in her book.
You will also learn about the evidence that was not even used in court.
I do
not understand how E. Jean Carroll manages to use humor to make the narrative
more palatable. Her humor and wit did not prevent the waves of nausea and
disgust I experienced as I learned the details of her situation. Yet I forced
myself to complete the read. I skimmed through some passages about clothing
because I found them redundant and irrelevant.
One of his defense attorneys was obsessed with
the victim’s clothing. There was an irrational interest in her clothing. I also
do not understand why his defense attorney had an inappropriate focus on Ms.
Carroll’s private life when the focus should have been on the abuser’s
behaviors instead. The twenty-first century is not free from misogyny and
gender double standards.
The current
social and political landscape in the United States of America is clear
evidence of how serious it is to let misogyny dominate a society. The
irrational voters did not believe E. Jean Carroll, but they have no problem
with the sexual abuser’s lies: No, he did not stop the war on Ukraine on day
one. In fact, he made it worse for Ukraine. No, he did not lower the prices of
groceries. In fact, the prices of groceries have been rising. He did not make
housing more affordable and “the concept of a healthcare plan” never
materialized, but the mainstream media never holds him accountable for anything. The sexual abuser promised to release the Epstein files but then he found out it was a better
idea to keep them hidden because the files are “boring” according to him, and he
moved the sexual trafficker’s helper to a better prison. What can be wrong with
that?
Yet the mainstream media treats him with
special care because they lack the courage that E. Jean Carroll has.
One
obsession of the trump regime is to persecute the people they label as
“illegals.” In Nazi Germany they would
have been the Jews, the Gypsies, the Communists and people with disabilities. In Nazi Germany
they also persecuted those who disagreed with Hitler’s regime. The trump regime
appears to follow on the same steps…
Under the trump regime the dictator’s minions
scapegoat groups of people and go after them while wearing masks, a mafia style
of action that should shock every citizen in America. Yet the mainstream media
dutifully promotes the dictator’s propaganda. The media did the same in the
1930s in Germany.
The trump
regime disregards science and public health. Those who voted for him were
concerned about the economy and the border because the mainstream media had promoted
a false narrative about the border, hinting that trump was the right person “to
fix it.” The narrative of the mainstream media about the border paved the way
to this regime through lies and exaggeration. This is what Hitler did to arouse
anger and to trigger scapegoating behaviors. Yet unemployment is rising and the
dictator did not improve the economy in any way unless you refer to the
financial situation of multibillionaires.
Math and economy are not the dictator’s
strengths. He said he would reduce the cost of medications by 1,500 percent.
Will people get paid to take their medications? We do not need a college degree
to understand that this is a lie.
It is exhausting to watch the mainstream
media constantly normalizing him, but the most disturbing part of the mess we
are in is that the dictator recently passed an executive order to enable the regime to go after anybody who opposes fascism in America, because he created an imaginary enemy called “Antifa.” In his imagination, Antifa is a terrorist organization. With
his executive order, the dictator gives the regime the green light to go after
anybody who stands up against fascism. How is this acceptable?
Do you
remember when he said he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose
supporters? It is the sign of a cult.
The fact that he bragged about sexually
assaulting women should have been enough to stop him from becoming president. Yet now we have him in power mansplaining pregnant women over the use of Tylenol, without any kind of scientific evidence. This is
dangerous for the health of women. It is hard to believe that this is happening
in the United States of America. Please, make sure you educate your daughters
to make mindful choices when voting... Did self-respect go out of fashion in
America? Seventy-seven million voters have channeled their insecurities into a
very insecure man, a sexual abuser, a bully.
Despite the threats to her life and the
violent messages she received, E. Jean Carroll did not surrender to fear, and she beat him. Yes, she is the winner and he is the loser in this case. The
sexual abuser will have to pay her over 89 million dollars because he
defamed her in addition to sexually abusing her.
E. Jean Carroll said she will be donating most of that money to the things that the sexual abuser hates: women’s reproductive rights, voting rights, climate solutions…
The end of her memoir brought tears of joy to
my eyes, but perhaps, some of those tears were tears of sadness, because how
can we surrender our country to an abuser?
What
we do matters. The dictator tried to get a comedian fired recently, but the
people responded and the comedian is back on air. The determination of the
people was more powerful than the power of a dictator. Let’s keep the momentum.
Do not get distracted.
Share this book with every person you know. It
deserves to be read. I am thankful for her bravery. I am thankful for the
bravery of those who supported her, and, of course, I am thankful for the dogs
who helped to guard her life.
Independent journalists who report facts
with authenticity and clarity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIUwQxsf4fE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyf80CwUjzo
Relevant
links:
https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jqvz24llyo
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