I am not saying that these women are wrong, certainly my oppinnion on politicians is low enough, but the gravity of the situation is astonishing. A government where one group sees another group as potential rapists clearly can not function well.
But this is absolutely endemic in all sorts of workplaces. It's very hard to deal with sexual harassment properly. So people make a personal decision about how much they're prepared to put up with, to step around, in order to have the career they want.
Millions benefit from having a functional government, is this more or less important than a few political careers.
I know after a decade+ of mainstream culture shitting on people for what they do outside of their professional capacity this is going to seem like an odd opinion but doing bad things and/or having moral failings outside of the specifics of work does not preclude being good at one's job.
How do you think all those wife beating cops everyone talks about manage to stay employed? They do their jobs.
All those commies that McCarthy said infiltrated industry, how did they get there? They did their jobs.
Alan Turning's "moral failings" were so bad he was criminally convicted for them yet he did some of the highest quality work in his field.
Etc. etc.
Here you might have to work together with people who you see as either rapist or who allegedly see you as future victims. This has to have an impact. Imagine being asked to work together with someone you believe might wanting to rape you. Can you have a one on one meeting with him? Would you even be willing to have a phone call with him? Even if you can, can you actually still help effectively govern millions of people?
Sure it can. It means dismissing all MPs and everyone potentially implicated from politics.
>which doesn't happen for many reasons
Which doesn't happen for personal reasons. Clearly the women in question prefer to risk a small chance of sexual violence over potential career implications. For their personal consideration it is clearly the right choice, avoid the people in question and almost certainly you will be fine.
But what is missing here is that these people hold very significant amounts of power and responsibility. Without a doubt their duty as politicians is first and foremost towards a functional government.