text: Maybe they felt oppressed and dis-empowered, and had suffered enough from chauvinistic bullies, condescending authority figures, and patronizing leaders.
  
  Perhaps now is the first time in all those years they have felt comfortable enough to air their grievance and their pain. To tell their story without being put down, ridiculed, and dismissed. It's possible they have the sense there are enough fair-minded, compassionate, and just people that are finally willing to listen. And maybe they can start to heal.
  
  If that's the case, that's a good thing, right?
  
  It sounds like you are blaming them for something. Isn't that what has been keeping women like this silent for so long, the inevitable victim-blaming that goes on? Is this some type of game? A game that protects the perpetrators and the predators.
  
  Who's side did you say you were on?