The broken bridge is societal tolerance of violence against women; it is complacency for data that shows rape is investigated and prosecuted at shockingly low rates and results in almost no convictions, even when cases do go to trial; it is the absence of awareness that rape evidence sat for decades untouched in cities around the country until a massive effort to uncover this neglect led to some reforms; it is politicians who minimize rape, comedians and their audiences who laugh at rape, entire industries where sexual harassment and assault were hidden secrets and perpetrators’ careers
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