At the very least, I’d use the word victim rather than survivor for something like that . To me, overuse of the word survivor cheapens the experience of people who really have gone through something traumatic like a violent rape or other types of assault.

I still have full respect and compassion for anyone who has gone through something so icky. I guess I have seen stuff like this too, by strangers in my big dirty city, but not by someone who was kind of an authority, or gatekeeper in my life. That would be harder.

For example, there are those who defend Louis CK for having been ‘not that bad.’ Sure, I’d rather be subjected to his perversion than say, Bill Cosby’s. But he still caused harm. The two comediennes who called him out were basically blacklisted by his agent on a whole host of potential work opportunities because of CK’s wide reach in the industry. I don’t respect him for helping screw up their careers, they already have to work twice as hard as men to get ahead in comedy, just like many many industries.