On October 6, 2018, the United States Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court despite Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault. She testified how he trapped her in a room at a party, groped her, covered her mouth so she could not scream, attempted to rip off her clothes, attempted to rape her.

Why did a majority of the Home of the Free’s senators vote to approve a man accused of sexual assault to one of the highest offices in the country?

Perhaps they feared convicting an innocent man. Kavanaugh’s childish behavior and angry rants about beer implied he was not an innocent person (not to mention incompetent for this office). Furthermore, it is unlikely he is innocent of sexual assault; 90% to 98% of women report these crimes truthfully according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Some claimed Dr. Ford lied to further a political agenda, but she had nothing to gain from speaking out. In November, two months after testifying, Dr. Blasey Ford continued to receive death threats that forced her to move four times, hire a private security detail, and prevented her from returning to work. Few women would welcome extensive harassment for a political agenda.

Young women ages sixteen to nineteen are four times more likely than the general population to experience sexual assault, according to RAINN, an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization. It is highly plausible Dr. Blasey Ford experienced sexual assault as a high school student—as many women have.

Think of all the women in your life, whether they are your mother, sister, grandmother, teachers, classmates. Contemplate this statistic from RAINN: one in every six women experiences sexual assault in her lifetime. For every six of those women, one will be catcalled, molested, raped—if she has not been already.

How is this acceptable? It is not. How can we stand by and do nothing? We cannot. What can we do? We can do anything we put our minds to.

Petition schools for lessons on consent in the health curriculum. Look out for women at parties. Make sure everyone is accounted for. Call out men when they catcall or make a rape joke. Believe women.

Two years ago this country elected a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women to the highest seat of power in the world. In two years, we can re-elect him or reject him—and reject his violent behavior toward women. In two years, millions of young women will enter colleges where one in four of them will experience sexual assault. Where their lives will be forever changed.

We must not perpetuate this culture of sexual assault. We must reject the men like Kavanaugh and Trump and hold them accountable. We must support women who survived sexual assault. We must believe women because they have nothing to gain from telling their stories but justice.

If we continue to enable sexual violence, that one in six will increase—and it could be you.