The fact that Christine Blasey and Julie Swetnick did not, at the time of their attacks, have available to them the concept of “date rape” to describe their experiences is an example of what the philosopher Miranda Fricker calls “hermeneutical injustice”: being deprived of the resources with which to interpret your experiences of harm both to yourself and to others because of a gap in the collective understanding. The introduction of concepts like date rape and acquaintance rape, street harassment, microaggressions, and even mansplaining are all instances of an amelioration of hermeneutical injustice.