Brett Kavanaugh Is Nice. That Doesn’t Mean He’s Not Sexist.

We’ve confused “sexism” with meanness — and sexists routinely benefit from our confusion

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readJul 17, 2018

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Brett Kavanaugh is probably a sweet guy. That’s what I’ve picked up from the various op-eds about his “character,” several of them written by female acquaintances. In the Washington Post, Julie O’Brien praises…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.