Women were angry. And the press told us all about it.

After Christine Blasey Ford testified on her allegation of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, rage was all the rage. A New York magazine declared, “Women React to Kavanaugh Hearing With Rage and Pain,” while the Guardian proclaimed, “ ‘I can’t cry any more. I’m too angry’: women respond to Ford’s testimony.”

But not all angry women were equal. Another Guardian headline: “ ‘I’m on the brink of tears’: how rightwing women reacted to Kavanaugh.” Notice the difference? A piece in the Atlantic also clarified who these other angry women might be: “Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh — And They Think Other Voters Are, Too.” The original angry women weren’t called “liberal” or “Democrats.” Only Republican women are women with an asterisk.

You’d think the election of 2016 would have taught us that women aren’t some monolithic bloc, all thinking and voting the same way. But the Kavanaugh hearings have once again exposed the left’s expectation that women all have the same opinions on a given event. When they don’t, the conservative female opinion is the outlier, while that of women on the left requires no qualifier.

In Time magazine, playwright Eve Ensler wrote a letter to women who supported Kavanaugh. She wrote that the letter was intended not to “lecture them” or “denigrate them,” yet it did far worse: She compared women who support Kavanaugh to her mother, who looked the other way as her father sexually abused her. She wrote that these women had been taught to respect the patriarchy and believe men over other women.

But Ensler accidentally ended up making her opponents’ point, writing, “Stop the ascension of a man who is angry, aggressive, and vengeful and could very well be a sexual assaulter.” If even Ensler has her doubts about Kavanaugh being a sexual assaulter, why is it so strange that other women do, too?

Inez Stepman and Lindsey Fifield are two millennial women who co-founded the group Ladies for Kavanaugh to show their support for the nominee when they felt that view was being left out of the public discourse. Their day jobs are in conservative politics, Stepman at Independent Women’s Forum and Fifield at the Heritage Foundation. (Their pro-Kavanaugh group was formed on their own time.)

Fifeld and her pro-Kavanaugh friends had stayed quiet during the original hearings while liberal women raged in the streets and on social media. “But in the wake of the baseless, 11th-hour accusations orchestrated to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation, we couldn’t stay silent anymore,” Fifield said.

Stepman told me, “Our husbands, brothers, fathers and sons deserve fairness, too.”

Women also pushed back on the idea that Kavanaugh should be a stand-in for all men who had ever sexually assaulted a woman. On Friday, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski met with “dozens of Alaskan women privately in her office,” “including several sexual assault survivors,” during what MSNBC correspondent Garrett Haake described as an “emotional” meeting. Alexandra DeSanctis, staff writer at National Review, tweeted: “I’m highly disturbed by this notion that it’s just to punish Kavanaugh for other men’s sins. There’s no legitimate reason to believe he’s committed any sexual misconduct, but half the country wants to make some kind of cultural sacrifice out of him.”

But using personal trauma to inform opinions on a Supreme Court nominee only seemed to work in one direction. When Kellyanne Conway admitted she’d also been sexually assaulted, it didn’t lend her opinion the same weight it did for liberal women. Instead, she was subject to an attack by Mika Brzezinski, who ranted that Conway should disclose who did what to her and when.

Believe all victims — except when it doesn’t fit your narrative.

These other angry women were mobilized to political action, too. Theirs wasn’t necessarily the march-in-the-street kind. Ruth Graham, in Slate, pointed out that there had been “a 14-point swing in female voters’ interest in the midterms — after the hearings, and in Republicans’ favor.”

If the media stopped using “women think” as a placeholder for what liberal women think, we might get a clearer picture of the many viewpoints women hold and not be as surprised by the choices they make. Just as men don’t vote “as men,” let’s stop imagining that women do what they do because of their gender. The Kavanaugh confirmation process should be a teaching moment on that.