[rainbowmverse]

People have different thresholds where the perceived (or real) danger of speaking out is low enough. For some people, they don't need any backup. For others, they need to see a lot of people talking about it. Most people are somewhere in the middle. The snowball takes a while to reach the bottom.

[twobyfour]

Indeed. But it's a shame that speaking out has to be perceived as dangerous at all. And it's a shame that until now the tone of discussion has been sufficiently defensive and denialist that misbehavior has been perceived as acceptable and something certain people can get away with.