Evan
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If you search Devil's Triangle using the Urban Dictionary it refers to sexual encounters... different types of sexual encounters but sexual activities none the less. Refer to the definitions posted years ago (2008 and 2011). Discount the ones posted this week since they are obviously politically motivated.
I don't give a lot of credence to that particular argument because those definitions were added decades later. They don't show what the meaning would've been back then or what it would've been among Kavanaugh's group of friends.
I'd never heard of the term before. I think it is odd there's no record of anyone ever mentioning it as a drinking game anywhere on the internet or in any archive, but that isn't conclusive in any way. It simply doesn't confirm what Kavanaugh claimed. However, I know he grew up as a pretty devout Catholic, and as someone who was also a devout Christian in my teens (not saying I've changed), I know that my friends and I sometimes used the "Devil" or Satan label to refer to certain things or make jokes. I remember getting in trouble with a friend's parent because I made a joke that we were going to go talk to our friend Satan. They didn't realize I was totally joking. We were a group of devout Christian friends and it was a joke because that was literally the antithesis of what we were going to go do.
I could see a Catholic teenager calling a drinking game that because drinking isn't considered a sin among Catholics (I don't think it is either but many Protestants do), but drinking to excess is. So, a drinking game that encourages excessive drinking might be called something like Devil's Triangle.
It isn't impossible that it was a sexual reference, but I think we have to look at things we have evidence for. There's evidence Kavanaugh drank to excess and he downplayed his drinking. There's evidence the Renate comments didn't mean what he claimed. But, as I said before, humans make mistakes especially in pressure filled highly public situations when your character is in question, and you've been accused of a serious thing. I don't think that his misleading or untruthful statements about these things should prevent his confirmation even if I think it was wrong for him to do it, and I'm uncomfortable with it to an extent.