The decades’ worth of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein that came to light last week served as another reminder that news about an influential person taking advantage of the more vulnerable travels awfully slow, especially when the alleged abuser has a more expansive support network…

To be fair, Ben Affleck’s oldest daughter wasn’t born until 2005, so he was still a couple of years out from realizing that breasts are attached to human beings when he appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live back in 2003. That’s when he allegedly groped then-MTV VJ Hilarie Burton, as Burton claimed last night on Twitter: