The public response to the Sydney Swans scandal has been fascinating(极有趣的，引人入胜的). Before we knew very much at all, people were ready to be outraged. Perhaps understandably so. One in five Australian women has experienced sexual violence(性暴力) since the age of 15.
公众对悉尼天鹅队丑闻的反应耐人寻味。在我们几乎还一无所知时，人们便已准备好义愤填膺。或许这情有可原——五分之一的澳大利亚女性自15岁起便经历过性暴力。
Put footballers, women, alcohol, and alleged(涉嫌的，被指称的) assault in the same story and it’s as if we already know how it ends. Entitled athletes. Women as collateral damage(附带损害). Another sporting culture gone bad(变坏，堕落).
把足球运动员、女性、酒精和涉嫌性侵犯放进同一个故事，仿佛我们早已知道结局：自以为是的运动员，沦为附带损害的女性，又一个堕落的体育文化。
There is something encouraging in that response. Behaviour we once might have shrugged off(对…不予理会，耸肩表示不在乎) now makes us deeply uncomfortable. But our heightened(增强的，提高的) sensitivity to violence against women is one thing. Filling in the gaps before we know the facts is another.
这种反应中有令人鼓舞之处。我们过去或许会一笑了之的行为，如今令我们深感不安。但我们对暴力侵害女性行为的敏感度提高是一回事，在了解事实之前自行填补空白则是另一回事。