Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Democrats “probably” gave former President Bill Clinton a pass on his treatment of women, offering another example of how the country’s reckoning with sex harassment and abuse is redefining the public’s view of once larger-than-life characters.

“Probably,” the freshman Democratic lawmaker said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I wouldn’t look at this through a partisan lens. I think that this is part of an evolution that we’ve been having as a country.”

She added: “Women have historically been mistreated, there is no… I don’t think that is really a controversial thing to say.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who reps portions of Queens and The Bronx, also said that former Vice President Joe Biden still has work to convince women voters that he understands complaints that behavior – once written off as glad-handing – is inappropriate these days.

“I think there’s some things with female voters, that it’s just not quite locked down,” she said of Biden. “There some ways to go, but this is also a cultural evolution I think that we’re having as a country. “

“It’s not about right and wrong sometimes, it’s about what they’re feeling,” she added. “I don’t think he’s necessarily convinced all women.”