05/03/2026
“Out of ten men,
one makes a sexual joke directed at a woman,
two laugh along,
three don’t find it funny but still chuckle to fit in,
four say nothing, they pretend they didn’t hear it at all.
Not a single one speaks up,
not a single one stops it.
Later, aside from the man who made the joke, the other nine all believe the same thing - men like that are a minority, most men aren’t like this.
They all see themselves as part of the good majority.
But from the woman’s perspective, the one being harassed, there is no big difference between them.
The laughter, the silence, the looking away - all of it creates the same environment.
So when women say most men are the same, this is what they mean. Not every man harasses women but most men participate in protecting the system that does.”
To be clear, Jeffrey Epstein is the one who “made the joke”.
But Deepak Chopra was one of the men who laughed.
This is not just about individual abusers and their victims.