'These moments cannot just be about accusers and the accused. They have to be about the structures that enable the accused and silence the accusers, and the change that has to come from within them,' Amy Bass writes for CNNOpinion
Amy Bass is a professor of sport studies at Manhattanville College and the author of"One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together" and"Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete," among other titles. The views expressed here are solely hers. View more opinion on CNN.
"Boys," a pediatrician told me years ago, as she checked the staples in my young daughter's head a few days after a playground incident,"don't get in trouble for throwing stones until they hit someone." Maybe we should take her wise words up a notch: boys don't get in trouble for throwing stones until someone exposes just how many people they've hit.Amy BassOtherwise, the system remains the same, a system like so many others that lets these things happen and finds ways to justify working around them. Everyone is shocked. Everyone is appalled. Everyone feels bad for the victim. But no one does anything beyond changing the playing field and moving the players.
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