At that moment you cannot help, particularly as a young woman, remembering the countless stories you have read about shockingly low conviction rates, about rape victims not being believed, about justice gone undone.
(Actually, Mr. Bernstein's former wife, Nora Ephron, guessed it was Mr. Felt and wrote a funny essay about saying so and not being believed).
For me, this bleeds into many challenges I've had to face as a femme largely, not being believed about my gender identity.
However, she makes a wider point about rape: "Too many women are not being believed when it comes to this.
"My only feeling is, if she's lied about me, which I know to an absolute certainty she has, she should not be believed about anyone else," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Just think for a moment: If so many women have come forward, how many other women may have silenced themselves because they feared, and rightly, that they would not be believed about the alleged actions of Bill Cosby?
He will continue pounding on lecterns, railing to the remaining true believers that his rival can't be believed about the insurance mandate and so much more.
"I guess I just think about all the people that weren't believed and the people who haven't been believed, and the people who are afraid to speak up because they think they won't be believed," she continued.
The closest he gets to anything like strenuous analysis is to entertain dazzling thoughts about not being able to believe his luck; he is so incurious, so bereft of the ability to think of his wife as a complete person, that he thinks of her experiences as his own.
There's something about not being intimidated, and believing that I, as the leader of the business, don't need to know everything better than the team does".
