Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago

[Mariana]

18. The fact remains that nothing much was done.

I was a teenage girl in Alabama (not Gadsden) at the same time as this was going on. It's ridiculous to imply that a man that age hitting on high school girls was normal, it absolutely was not.

What was normal was that women and girls were routinely blamed for being sexually assaulted, and were shamed for it. If they reported it, it was in the papers and everyone talked about them, and what they were wearing, and they might have said and done, and what they should have done differently, and often about how they deserved it. This would all be much worse if the perpetrator was someone politically connected like Moore, if the report ever went anywhere - of course his friends in the police department and the DA's office would do everything they could to bury it. I understand perfectly why those women kept their mouths shut for so long.