Rachel Hurley's Post, this may explain why women don't always come forward when assaulted.

[Swede]

Ladies.
I HATE to have to state the obvious - but some of y'all are annoying the shit out of me.
As women - we should know this by now.
The reason why the Eric Swalwell accusers did not come forward sooner is that they thought they were the only ones.
Just look at what happened to Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, Andrea Constand, E. Jean Carroll, and so many others. Women stay quiet all the time when a powerful man hurts them because they think maybe it was their fault, or they're overreacting, or assume no one will believe them - or worse, that they will be the one whose life gets blown up for saying it out loud.
That is how this works. Not because the abuse did not happen - but because isolation is part of the system that protects men like this. Each woman thinks she is alone until someone else speaks, and then another, and then another. By the time the public hears about it, people start asking why they did not come forward sooner - when the real question is why we keep pretending we do not understand exactly why women stay silent.
They did not feel empowered to speak until they realized they were not the only ones.
These women started coming forward in November of last year - and it took this long for them to build a coalition and feel protected enough to come forward.
We've seen this happen so many times before - when will we learn?
Oh - and everyone in my comments is talking about how we need to wait to condemn him until there's been an investigation - THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INVESTIGATIONS.
Some of you are asking for investigations in the comments of the investigations.
The receipts are out there - you're just too lazy to look for them.
I said what I said.
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