We are a culture awash in self-acceptance. This is seldom more apparent than in the way we speak of—and try not to speak of—abortion. 

That Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed isn’t a slap in the face of all survivors of assault. He isn’t confirmed because sexual assault doesn’t matter, or because Sen. Susan Collins is anti-woman.

The less prone we are to self-examination, the more self-aggrandizing we become in our denunciations. It’s making our society harsher.

In the same way that the show had an outsized influence on women’s fashion, so too did it influence their behavior. The latter didn’t work out so well.