Look at this way too, if you see or hear that a guy you hang out with did something inappropriate and you deflect or don't take it seriously, you're basically saying he didn't do anything you find morally objectionable.

Okay then, so what's preventing you from doing the same damn thing to the women in your life as well? There's nothing wrong with it, right?

It's not just the reputation of abusers at stake here. It's all of you who have chosen silence.

There's a reason why women are losing willingness to engage with y'all or give you any basic trust or benefit of the doubt on the hope that you're a decent guy.

Because all of y'all have taught us that sexual assaults are not a big deal to you with all those crickets.

You've told us with your silence that you're not worthy of that basic trusting assumption that you're not out to hurt us. Hurting us isn't morally objectionable enough to you to warrant some kind of resistence on a societal level.

Oh well. Have your crickets back. We got the message. Loud and clear. Have you?