Very.
Gladly. It’s unfortunate that many who decry the reflexive speed they ascribe to others are to busy firing off rhetorical questions to read what women actually write.
The Silent Generation(s) weren’t silent about sexual abuse, assault and harassment only because they were raised to be by a conformist culture opposed to upsetting the apple cart. When women broke that code and spoke up, the prevailing culture overwhelmingly dismissed them, and talking to a wall seemed futile so they relied on the manifestly inadequate convention of whisper networks to warn each other.
Not all of Trump’s base admire sexual predators, but they’re unwillingness to call those who do to account enables it, just as it does the xenophobia, racism, lies and blatant hypocrisy.
