The rash of sexual assault and harassment is our own fault.

Face it, we minimize or justify it when it's one of ours...and I don't just mean politicians. Athletes, movie stars, etc, going back to their formative years.

The starting quarterback in a HS team gets caught drunk driving, the cop and the judge work out a deal. The college BMoC gets into a fight, or date rapes a girl, and we "Fix" it for them.

We create the environment where "connected" people have a different set of rules, and victims who rock the boat get punished or ostracized, then we wonder why, decades later, the compass still points North.

Dysfunctional behavior doesn't stop absent negative consequences. As long as we keep denying, covering up, minimizing, or justifying, it's never going to stop.