There's always a fuller story. In many cases, I think the story goes somethign like this, with variations. We have a brilliant man absolutely focused on his scientific research with not many other opportunities or reasons to interact with women, who also happens to love women, either sexually or platonically or a combination of both. He's a little older, maybe he wasn't that successful with women when he was young because he was a brilliant nerd of some sort. And then there are the women: young, vibrant, eager, interested (and self-interested), attracted to the man's knowledge, attracted to the professional opportunities associated with him. A few of the women are outright gold-diggers ('Lay for an A"), just as a few men are outright predators. Most are not, I'd wager, on either side: it's more the messy, complicated, grey-area romantic, flirtatious, forbidden, or unconscious attraction of young women and older men. Until relatively recently, there were very strict rules governing how young women could interact with such men. The women of the sexual revolution said we could handle it; we were adults, we could make our own sexual and other choices. It turns out that, for some significant number of such women, that's not true. Uncertainty, embarrassment, resentment, bragging rights, misunderstanding, regret, the desire for victimhood, the desire for self-importance, the desire to support other women, etc all combine into a noxious stew of false allegations that universities are far too ready to promote in order to cover their own backsides. It says something very bad about women in general that so many of them are willing to go along with these witch-hunts. But not all women are, of course, and those ones get persecuted in turn.