Not uncommonly, when a woman says something that impugns a man - particularly a powerful one - or an institution, particularly if it has to do with sex, the response will question not just the facts of her assertion but her capacity to speak and her right to do so. Generations of women have been told that they are delusional, confused, manipulative, malicious, conspiratorial, congenitally dishonest, often all at once. Consider all this, and you may at some point be tempted to gently close the door on humanity. But hold off for one moment. There is something good to come out of the madness.