Johnson: Sex assault cases – why men seem to come out OK

As we await the verdict in the trial of two University of Ottawa hockey players charged with sexual assault, I am thinking, not of the accused, whose careers may be affected by a guilty verdict, but of the victim, whose life is irrevocably altered no matter what happens.
Convicted or not, and they usually aren’t, men charged with sexual assault seem to come out OK. Steeped in denial, buoyed by rape myths, surrounded by supporters invested in their innocence, they are rarely diminished by t