At the onset of the #MeToo movement, men were baffled by the sheer extent of women, not just in the news, but the ones they knew personally, who came forward with horror stories of rape, domestic violence, and workplace sexual harassment. And it made sense.

Sexual violence thrives in secret thanks to a lack of social awareness and a functional criminal justice system. Bad men do bad things only when good men aren’t there to stop them. Couple that with the fact that an overwhelming majority of abusers and harassers are serial offenders, and it created a perfect storm of ignorance that was shattered by a hashtag perfectly designed to educate, not flagellate, and perhaps even more importantly, not virtue signal.