God bless you and keep you.
I am SO sorry for all of that.
I appreciate it; but it did not compare to your experience. Annoying, frightening, demeaning and disgusting as the casual harrassment I experienced was, it was very common for many of my women friends and co-workers in the city and corporate environment, and I just had to regard it as the cost of doing business, as long as it never got violent or penetrative.
As these stories are coming out now, I am, however, looking back and realizing how endemic it was and how it did cause me to lose some work opportunities and feel more afraid than many of the tone-deaf men on this thread can imagine. My standard of living in retirement has been lowered due to my boss's harassment and my having to leave a good job. I changed churches when my pastor started dropping by without his wife. There were costs, and many, many women have endured this b******t.
I believed then and believe now that the so-called Sexual Revolution was part of the worldwide socialist movement, and that the last approximately fifty years of the breaking down of traditional marriage, family life and heterosexual norms, plus the rise of available porn, have caused a spike in this activity. Sex abuse has always happened to individuals, but I do think there is more of it and it is more frequent now. The current outpouring of tattling is healthy and necessary. It's a shame it has taken so long.
Because the evil Democrats and RINOs wanted to do evil by shaming their enemies as sex abusers, God is using it to do good. I think more women and children will be believed now; and the same social media that is exposing abusers is also more able to expose the liars and fakers, like we see with the Roy Moore yearbook forgery.
I realize that some men have been and will be unjustly accused, and that is always a crime and a tragedy; but against the sheer numbers of women abused, they are a much smaller percentage of the population.
In terms of sheer statistics, I think over the next decade, the numbers of false accusations will drop because the lies are now more easily documented by social media, and the numbers of casual abusers will also drop, because this "outing" of outrageous behavior is taking place.