The status gap btwn Blasey Ford & Reade is not irrelevant to the gap in their treatment .
Prof. Ford has the soft-spoken composure of professionals used to being heard.
Reade ("Survivor, Domestic Violence Advocate, Animal Rights, Actress, Writer. Poet") appears…
— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) April 29, 2020
I think this is a large part of it. “Educated” liberals read Reade as a nobody, while Christine Blasey Ford hits all the right targets for them as someone who should be respected: well-dressed, very articulate, poised, highly educated. She’s one of them.
Reade on the the other hand is kind of messy, loud, louche, and lower-class, which they all hate. To them, Reade is a deplorable and thus automatically to be discounted.