There seems to be this gross misconception that all or most victims of sexual abuse have to act rationally as if it were not at all an emotionally damaging moment in their lives, else it totes didn't happen and they were just asking for it. Almost as if this misconception is being projected by males whom have had no experience in the subject matter but feel it is their duty to say how they would respond, regardless of their lack of knowledge or experience, or how power play works with predators in positions of power.
That's not even getting into the people who have had problems with sexual abuse in their past and it being ignored or worse.
For example, a lady I was in hospital with once, she explained how years ago in her childhood, she tried to tell her mum on multiple occasions of the sexual abuse from her stepdad, except she was instead accused of trying to break them up and eventually disowned by her own mother as her mum would rather sacrifice her daughter's relationship instead of consider that her own is at fault. It's tied into self-esteem also for this. But anyway, her daughter is left in and out of various mental health wards suffering from the denial that is so regularly a part of this world.
Another lady had gotten so used to abuse that she thought not fighting would be easier than resisting, it would make it quicker for her. None of the issue is pretty or neat or something the average unabused is capable of understanding and commenting on.
People under emotional stress, dealing with even past emotional stress do not usually have the healthiest coping strategies nor do they act always rationally. But even then you could argue that it might be rational to try and brush it off instead of fight an uphill battle where so many others have already lost.
Predators try to pick up on weaknesses, it's what they do. Especially in positions of power, if they try with someone they think is weak and fail, fuck it... there's a hundred or thousand more coming through the door...and guess who's the perceived gatekeeper to their fame and success? Yup. Fail 20...50...what...maybe 1 will be weak or damaged enough (I used to know the type to think that way with women) to break and who will believe them if they tell anyway? Who even are they? They don't have the money, connections or power to be taken seriously. Imply that all the other girls had to do the same, what do they know? They could have, right?
Fuck, this problem has been around for so long and God knows how much longer if people would rather ignore or blame the victims. It's easier to justify they deserve it than to accept that there is so much more we could be doing to stop this despicable abuse of power upon impressionable and ambitious youth. I sincerely hope this opens a lot more doorways for victims to not be ignored. It's fucking ridiculous that abusers can go decades, even till their deaths, before people look seriously at victims claims. Is there some sort of sick ratio of how many you can abuse in comparison to your social status and money before you have to reap what you sow?