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Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court justice nominee, is not the first man in politics to be accused of sexual misconduct in the past, nor is he the first man to deny the validity of these allegations. In fact, Brett Kavanaugh is not even the first man to do an interview addressing these allegations with his wife, Ashley, beside him.

Ashley Kavanaugh is not the first woman to do an interview next to her husband as he faces allegations about sexual misconduct. She is not the first woman to nod her head along with all he says. She is not the first woman to claim that her husband would never do acts even remotely similar to those he is accused of. She is not the first woman to defend her husband against sexual misconduct allegations by saying she loves him. see women like Ashley

Christine Blasey Ford is not the first woman to come forward about a political leader possibly having sexual misconduct in the past. 

Christine Blasey Ford is not the first woman to come forward about a political leader possibly having sexual misconduct in the past. 

Christine Blasey Ford is not the first woman to come forward about a political leader possibly having sexual misconduct in the past. 

Christine Blasey Ford is not the first woman to come forward about a political leader possibly having sexual misconduct in the past. 

Christine Blasey Ford is not going to be the first woman to be destroyed for coming forward with this information. see Anita Hill

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Christine Blasey Ford knows she is going to get destroyed for coming forward. She is a college professor. Her claim is 30 years old and only has one other witness in it who denies he remembers anything related to Brett's alleged sexual misconduct. Her statement that Brett pinned her down on a bed, groped her, and attempted to force her out of her clothes is weakened even further by the consumption of alcohol at the high school party this occurred at. She knows she is going to get destroyed coming forward.

Yet, she came forward anyway possibly because she does not want an attempted rapist to be on the Supreme Court. That's patriotic. That's a feminist. 1,600 men signed an ad that was posted in The New York Times, declaring they support her. She's voicing her experiences to help other women, men, and children in this country be better informed, and even if she is lying or has false memories of an incident, she is encouraging them to choose their leaders wisely. In a time where the President of the United States calls you an evil democrat and insists you are attempting to ruin a mans reputation falsey after no investigation had even been started on the issue, I would say honestly, that's fair. We should choose our leaders wisely.

On the other hand, what Ashley Kavanaugh did, similar to good ol' Donny, was deny that her husband ever could have had sexual misconduct. Ashley Kavanaugh has been employed in politics since 1996. In an interview, Ashley Kavanaugh sat next to her husband, dutifully nodding along with his claims of innocence and virginity. When given the opportunity to speak, Ashley Kavanaugh claimed she loved her husband and could never believe that he would ever have sexual misconduct. She's known him for seventeen whole years.

Brett Kavanaugh is 53 years old.

His defense was that he was a virgin until much after high school.

It's not just the POTUS and Ashley claiming that they know Brett Kavanaugh is falsely accused either. Jim Jordan, another candidate, claims he is innocent as well. Congressional candidate Janet Garrett spoke up to remind everyone that there must be an investigation, and that no one can say for sure that they know Brett Kavanaugh is innocent or not until it is completed.

The book The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves on page 181 states that the U.S. has been criticized by Latin America for approaching women's health issues with a focus on the self. They believe that there are seldom relationships involved with it, and the ones that exist focus on creating a product instead of instilling a sense of responsibility with health. Several issues of Our Bodies, Ourselves have been adapted in various countries and one of the reasons that this has been done is because of the differing political situations. I believe that it is reasonable to conclude that the success of the self-help approach to women's health in the U.S. is partially due to the political situation it was presented in. Now, the book has lost funding and will no longer be adapted or printed. Women will no longer even have access to the self-help books. Health cannot be achieved without resources, and the political situation or activism that is present in a country determines what can thrive for women's health. For women's health to thrive, we need to ask who is invited to the table to talk about issues concerning women's health. Is it Christine? Or is our political situation set up that before investigations are done, people assume the woman is wrong, call her evil, and trust the man. Perhaps we need more "firsts." If we want to see things we've never seen before, we have to be willing to do things we've never done before. People who do not believe in women's health activism should no longer be invited to the table if health is to be accessible for all. Christine Balsey Ford, heck yeah I'd vote for you. 

References:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/26/new-york-times-ad-1-600-men-say-they-believe-christine-blasey-ford/1439038002/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/24/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-professor-who-accused-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/408234-dem-congressional-candidate-kavanaugh-controversy-is-a-huge-step-backwards

Get Your Head In The Game

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This past summer new information was released by the Journal of Radiology about the difference between male and females in brain damage from heading soccer balls. This study revealed that women experience greater brain damage than men do. Research also revealed that women experience symptoms and suffering for longer than men do. This research, that was just done in the past year, is looking at something no one has considered until now. This means that up until recently, doctors assumed that males and females were experiencing damage to their brain from heading soccer balls in the exact same way. This assumption could be potentially dangerous to the women getting diagnosed with concussions because doctors truly do not know enough about how this condition is affecting them.  This is just one example of a lack of knowledge and understanding regarding crucial health concerns for women.

            It is now common knowledge for most Americans about the dangers of sports like football because of injuries such as concussions. There is even a movie, starring Will Smith, dedicated to talking about the discovery of the dangers of concussions in football players. The narrative that is being created about concussions is shaped around the idea that it is a man's injury because football is held as the main focus. Concussions are associated with being rough and tough. Females are inherently not considered in danger of getting hurt because they do not “typically” participate in such aggressive activities. With all this talk and focus on football and males, we are neglecting to learn more about females who are suffering from concussions.

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            Research presented in 2017 by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons revealed that high school girls have a significantly higher concussion rate than boys. This startling new information about concussions challenges what we previously thought about concussions. It is not just a male-dominated injury; it is even more prominent in females. Female soccer players are at the greatest risk for concussions. Soccer, a sport that does not contain the similar roughness of football, is an equal if not greater contributor to concussions. And women are the ones who are mostly affected by this. The women getting concussions from soccer are just as important as the men who get concussions from football.  And yet, no one started talking about women and concussions until just now. That says a lot about the lack of concern the medical field has for female health overall.

            An explanation for why research is only now starting to emerge about concussions involving women is the ignorance of the medical society that has a limited scope and awareness for women's health. This comes from the fact that the people running studies, giving out grants and publishing are typically men (Dusenbery 32). These men are looking at things that are relevant to them. Long lasting trauma from male-dominated sports, for example, is a great example of what scares men. Therefore, they focus on one narrow aspect of the problem and that alone. They fail to broaden their view and think about who else is being affected by this problem.  Because of this lack of curiosity about females, women suffer by not receiving all the possible knowledge they can about their health.

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An argument could be made with the fact that women are more likely than men to report concussion symptoms. This information could skew the data to why women have higher concussion rates. Though this is a valid point, we do not know why women are more likely to report their symptoms. It could be that they are reporting them more because the different damage in their brain makes symptoms more prominent. Doctors were aware that women were reporting more serious symptoms following concussions, but brushed that information aside and chalked it up to women simply speaking up more about their problems. This is an extremely bold assumption for doctors to make about all females suffering from concussions. 

Instead of actually taking action and figuring out a potential cause for why women are reporting severe symptoms, they ignored and discredited them. Not believing or listening to females when it comes to their health is invalidating their knowledge of how their body works and feels. Doctors should try to understand these concerns and work with female concussion patients to further understand what is going on within their bodies.

It is clear that the medical field needs to start putting time, money and interest into this cause if we ever want to see more information come to light. We do not have all the answers to this issue because no one has cared to look into it until now. This is the beginning of a new era of understanding how male and female bodies function differently at times. It is time doctors stop disregarding women's experiences and symptoms from concussions and putting them at risk because of this. It is ignorant to naturally assume that how a male's brain works is exactly how a female brain works, too. If doctors had actually cared and listened earlier they might have realized something was going on with females and concussions a long time ago.
Sources
Fox, Maggie. “Heading a Soccer Ball Affects Women's Brains More than Men's, Study Finds.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 31 July 2018, www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/heading-soccer-ball-harms-women-more-men-study-finds-n896236.
“AAOS.” American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 10 Mar. 2017, aaos-annualmeeting-presskit.org/2017/research-news/concussions_hsu/.
DUSENBERY, MAYA. DOING HARM: the Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed,... Misdiagnosed, and Sick. HARPERONE, 2018.