Sudden trend? My brother in law tried to rape me when I was about 12 years old. My cousin molested me when I was just five and had NO idea what he was doing to me. There were several other incidents like these that happened to me when I was younger. I worked at a bank in the mid 70s and one of the bosses would come up behind me and grab me around the waist. Another boss would talk dirty to me, tell me filthy jokes, then when I was shocked, and didn’t laugh, he would say, “I feel sorry for your husband, you are frigid” No, I was NOT frigid, I was a newlywed and this boss was an old creep. I quit that job. There was another similar job where the boss was a creep, I quit that job, too. Back then, 1970s, there was no HR department to go to. You just put up with this crap or quit the job. No new narrative. I didn’t press charges because I didn’t want to go to trial. I walked away from perfectly good jobs, to get away from creepy bosses. I hope and pray that my granddaughters don’t have to put up with crap like this. But this kind of harrassment and attempted rap, is not a new narrative. Women are finally coming forward.
Please don’t misunderstand me. The perpetrators you list should have been punished severely. Deep sadness overcomes me at the thought of a five year old girl suffering in that way. Not to mention rage at the thought of the criminal who did it.
What I’m saying is it seems that this situation is being used for another agenda. I’m not sure exactly what agenda, one possibility is to accelerate our decline into an Orwellian nightmare. The new narrative I see is one that tries to blur the distinction between real assaults like what you’ve experienced and normal speech between men and women. Or outright false accusations.