[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I'm not sure if this is really happening more often or you just see these stories a lot more because of the 24-hour nature of news TV and the internet. Maybe a combination of both?

[carlr]

I think that they did`nt fit the template of the predatory male,so they were viewed as isolated,odd incidents.

There are enough of them now that they are being taken as a whole rather than individual occurrences.