Believe it or not, what really counts in our gender-based battles is not the deeply fraught matter of “believing the woman,” but exactly how far each political party will go in defense of its own man.

In all of these contests, the answer is “very,” and all of these battles are fierce. In 1991, there was no chance in hell the Republican Party would give up Clarence Thomas, whose choice to replace civil rights legend Thurgood Marshall as the Supreme Court’s black justice had driven the left wing insane.

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