"Normal" is a fiction we agree on so we can deal with people we don't know.

[Girard442]

Turns out, all you need to establish a new normal is for some authority figure to say, "You know those thoughts and urges and beliefs you kept hidden because you thought people would think you're a dirtbag? Well, let 'em out. You'll have lots of company."

If video were to surface of Trump actually having sex with 14-year-old kids, what are the odds that child molestation would become the new normal for the Deplorables?

[captain queeg]

1. First they brand the kid as the instigator, say she was lying, etc

Though maybe if it was a 14 yr old boy there’d be a reaction.

[Igel]

2. And just like the Blasey-Ford,

if she didn't tell anybody all the details for a while, or her story changed, or she was vague about something, it meant she was lying.

And heaven help the kid if she'd stolen something or had ever cheated on a test.

[Hugin]

3. or what the child was wearing. n/t