Geez, that was 26 years ago, the Swimmer is dead (love saying that!), Pat Ireland is a 72 year old bisexual footnote, all kind of water over the dam, but.....
Someone is bound to say the same about Conyers, I do think.
Someone could make a greatest hits collage of erstwhile feminist icons making excuses for men sexually abusing women. There were quite a few from the Clinton era alone, not the least of which issued forth from the mouth of Herself, herself.