Some people are making a big deal out of other people not remembering attending the particular “party”. Well, Ford made it clear in her testimony that this wasn’t a party. It was a very small number of people stop-over at a house on the way to a party. Given that this crowd seems to have been frequent party-goers, and that they weren’t aware of the assault, I would be more surprised if they did remember.

I went to only a few parties in high school, but still I only have the vaguest of memories of them. I couldn’t even begin to say where or when any of them were. Now, had I been raped at one of them, I’m pretty sure I’d remember the rape. Would I remember all the other details? I don’t know. A lot of experts have said that Ford’s level of recollection is pretty normal for assault victims, and it is a normal defense mechanism for the mind to blot out as much as it can. So I wouldn’t presume otherwise in the absence of expert testimony to the contrary. But then, I’m not frantic to get Roe v. Wade overturned.