It’s long past time to stop viewing consistency as merely a restriction. When consistency is sensible, it can be liberating, too. If we truly believe that sexually assaulting or harassing women disqualifies men from positions of power, we can stop debating the allegations against Bill Clinton. We can free ourselves of any need to weigh the roles Harvey Weinstein created for women against the other women’s careers he undermined or destroyed. (We might also take a moment to remember that for every famous man who abused women in private and defended our rights in public, there’s probably a woman or uncompromised man who could have done that public-facing work equally well.)