The “locker room talk” lie, you mean.  I hear it repeated to this day by people who ought to know better. 
The stuff that Weinstein, Moore and so many are rightly accused of was an open secret for decades - where do think the term “casting couch” came from? - and it was allowed. The men, women and children who didn’t talk about it knew what would happen if they outed powerful people. Look at what happened to Anita Hill. Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court Justice. Trump “ the pussy grabber” is President. It makes me sick to my stomach. Having said that, those who silently  put up with sexual abuse and continued to associate with their abusers because they valued a career more than themselves - or anyone else who might be abused because of their silence - have waived much of the sympathy I would otherwise have for them.