So, in a clever analogical effort to bridge the emotional gap of our current political hellscape, the writer A.R. Moxon wrote a thread that perfectly explained to other men how women feel about Kavanaugh.
Hi, guys. Imagine if one day you got kicked in the nuts, really hard, on purpose.
You doubled over. Felt the pain. Nearly passed out. Nearly puked.
Then you got kicked again. And again.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine it happened to you when you were 12.
Imagine it was an 38 year old woman who did it.
Imagine it was your mother’s friend and business partner.— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you told your parents and they didn’t believe you.
Imagine they never mentioned it again.
You learned to keep quiet about it.
You learned to be scared.— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine that later your father explained that women just wanted to kick men in the nuts, so as a boy you had to be careful.
Imagine he had very detailed practical advice on this.
Imagine you started spending your life planning on avoiding being kicked in the nuts.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you became aware that women, including much older women—even elderly women—were always looking at your nuts. Women on the street would follow you. They’d tell you what a nice package you have. They’d tell you you’d be hot if you just showed off your nuts a little more.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you started wearing clothes to hide them. You bought uncomfortable protective gear.
All the posters and advertisements in all the magazines featured men’s crotches, though frequently not their heads.
Women’s feet were frequently featured in prominent juxtaposition.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine most of your friends all told you about getting kicked in the nuts.
Imagine none of them had ever told anybody else.
Imagine all the older girls at school would make jokes about kicking you in the nuts.
Imagine all the laughter. The jokes are all so funny.
Jokes.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you went to church and were told that God made girls to want your body, so you should protect your nuts at all costs.
Imagine the minister said it was your responsibility as a maturing boy not to do anything that would make girls think about kicking you in the nuts.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you found a girlfriend, and you loved each other.
One night, you were fooling around and she kicked you as hard as she could in the nuts, and it all came rushing back.
Imagine she acted like obviously you wanted to be kicked in the nuts,mocked you for getting emotional.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine you told the police, and they asked you what you’d been wearing before she kicked you in the nuts. Asked if you’d had a drink. Asked what you might have been doing before. Had you been naked? Kissing?
You had.
You left.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine there were laws that said that if a wife kicked her husband in the nuts it wasn’t assault.
Imagine you heard about men with ruptured testicles who had to pay for their own forensic reports
Imagine you saw statistics showing only 1% of kickings resulted in conviction.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
Imagine a girl was caught kicking a boy repeatedly in the nuts while he was passed out drunk.
Imagine the judge let her off, because she was worried about the damage to the girl’s future prospects. She was a star swimmer with a scholarship.
Imagine this happened all the time.
— A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018
The thread has since gone viral and, judging by the responses, his analogy has proved to be successful and has even inspired some other analogies.
